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District Attorney Jim Garrison 
Office of the District Attorney 
Orleans Parish- 
2700 Tulane..3lvd . 

New Orleans, Louisiana 


Dear Jim, 

As I am sure you will see from the enclosed picture, 
the trip to Dallas was successful. 

. 

On the eye of the most obvious indication of panic in 
■Washington, Me llama r a 1 s hasty departure, I feel 7/e are coming closer 
to the end of our search. Some of the critics are weary and familiar- 
ity with the ruthless hand of the "Ministry of Truth" has brought them 
to an uncomfortable impasse with action. I am sure now that they look 
to your able leadership to reunite them with the most pressing work 
at hand . 



l80o2 Bluesail Dr. 
pacific Palisades, 
California' 


November 23, 1957 


These are not idle words. I am, in a sense, repeating my 
feelings which resulted from a discussion with Maggie . She is ex- 
tremely depressed for several reasons, among them the poor showing 
at the party in your honor and the vray critics have been, in some 
cases, disunified at the time when their unbroken support is needed 
most --- to back your investigation. Her greatest dissapolntment is 
that publishers across the nation send her letters praising her book 
as the definitive work on the case and in the same paragraph they 
tell her' how it is impossible for their company to "do" her book at 
the. present time. Obviously, her book suggests more than the inaccur 
acies of the Warren Report, it goes beyond that to what people have 
great fears about knowing, and shows that there are people walking 
around freely today who could be arrested and convicted for conspir- 
acy. 


^ Before I go into the facts of my findings in Dallas let 

ie, respectf ully , pass on to you a suggestion which I believe could 
Increase the effectiveness of the critics as a -group and enhance 
the progress' of the investigation. This is. not my own idea, I must 
idpit but' a kind of consensus which no one has ever put into wards. 
" feel that if this idea could be put into action it would cut ou l 

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given some attention. Tour time is taxed and exha 
»d as if you were' the entire faculty of a University but you are on 
ian and we must try to avoid every minute of time wasted. Ton have 
;arried this investigation so strongly on your shoulders that it. 
jeems to me you must anticipate and avoid future problems tb 
io’ nothing but take up time in an unproductive, way. 


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It would seem to be a strengthening proposal If it 
were possible tc plan with the critics for future action. A 
wav in which the involvement of the individual critics in research 
projects would be as effortlessly acquired as. the- assignments you 
gave Maggie while you were* here . /The creation of a practical, private 

c osnun i catiVn bet wee n -ind iv id ual s and your 

at this 




and efficient form of 

office and from your office to them' is almost a necessity 
point. Such a communication system would cement relations 
critics and reunite them in their now projects. I realize 
you have utilized their important research in all of your 
it seems now that we must plan for an easier channel of communication 
for the future which promises to require the greatest efficiency. 


between 
how totally 
work but 


Now the report on my 


findings 


in Dallas and other points. 


• r 

Conclude 

Possibly 

The 

Fatal 

Shot 


1) I was always the greatest skeptic on the possibllti ty" 
of the storm sewer. Not because I didn't believe in its 
obvious possibilities but since I was setting out to prove 
or disprove it, I thought I should be most questioning. I 
now believe, without reservation, that it was possible for 
the storm sewer to have been used in the murder of prssideni 


Kennedy. I also believe that 
that the fatal shot was fired 


there is a strong possibility 
from this position. 


Enclosed 

Photo 


Person can 
Fit in Drain 
Cavern 


two second' 
in Sight 


the enclosed picture shows that the view from th 
drain includes the position of President Kennedy 
time his convert llbe limousine passed in front o 
Elm St. Note that' the person in the back seat is 
from the shoulder up and is forward and to the c 
the back seat. I can attest to that as I was the 
the back seat. I will make other supportive phot 
and film to prove my point. (See P.3.} The caver 
below the inlet entrance is a comfortable space 
person (only, ) 

a car passing in front of the .opening of this drain\ 
at approx innately 11 m.p.h. is seen for approx, two \ 
seconds. Tine enough to aim carefully and fire with aj 
rifle or other type of short range weapon. / 


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at the 
f it on 
visible 
enter of 
one in 
o graphs 
n area 
for one 


President * s. c : The head of the President would have been plainly 


Head 

plainly 

Visible 


visible throughout this two seconds, Ivhile that may 
seem a short period of time, the fact that none of the 
assassins had more than six seconds should add to the 
possibility that from the storm sewer at a short dis- 


tance ox twenty 


feet 


or so , 


it 


was not a difficult shoi 


Kan in 

Sever 

Hidden 

From 

Street 


Witnesses 


d: Photographs taken from the car of a person inside the 
sewer and others taken from the south side- of Elm St. \ 
show how a man in the opening would be ever so slightly \ 
visible to people as close as the witnesses on the south' 
side of that street. Even agent Eellernan would have had l 
a difficult time seeing anyone in the sewer opening as ; 
the shadow cast by the roof of the cavern would place 
ostial assassin in darkness to his angle of view. 




President's 

P.O.V. 


President 

in 

view 


e: Film taken from the car will show the view 
the President's position looking toward the 
storm drain opening. ' 

f; PilcNtaken from tiie storm drain of a convertible 
with passengers in the same positions as President 
Kennedy, Jackie, Agent Kellernan*and Agent Greer* 
(Driver) will show that for that period of two 
seconds the President's head was extremely visible. 
I have also made film of this in slow motion for 
more careful examination. 


Entrance 

and 

Exit 


g: Entrance and Exit to and from the drain could 
have been accomplished as easily by the potential 
assassin as it was when I entered the storm drain 
myself on November 22, 19-7. I would conjecture that 
it would have probably been easier for an assassin 
than it was for me considering what we know now about 
the case (he. the Dallas police.) If there is any 
doubt I have photographs showing the speedy departure 
of my assistant from the drain. At 6:30 A.M. on a 
day when there was to be much activity in the Plaza 
(the Thanksgiving day Memorial program for the late 
murdered President) there was little or no traffic 
in the Plaza until after 7:30 A.M. when the first 
patrol car slithered down Sim street under the Triple 
underpass. By that time we had finished .all of our 
work with the storm drain and were taking some more 
tourlst-liks photos. 


Breathing C h: There would be no need for any oxygen equipment in 

the space of the cavern. If the assassin desired to ' 
move further under the Plaza, as would have been 
possible for a rather small built man, he would have 
needed, in my opinion, some additional breathing 
equipment. The small size of the pipe (15") would 
positively preclude the conventional type of tank 
equipment used by divers. The pipe of 15 " leads 
from the inlet on the North side of Sim 3t. under 
the street in a southerly direction toward Main St. 
and then Joins an 13” pipe (after an extent ion of 
30 feet or so) and finally enters a. "storm drain" 
of pipe with a diameter or 30" or 39". This means 
that an assassin could crawl through the 30 feet of 
15" pips without the aid of any breathing equipment 
and upon reaching the larger diameter pipe of fy 



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Assassin i 
Escape 
or 

Remain 


Kercer 

testimony 


Green 

Ford 

Pickup 

Truck 


Meaning 
of its 
Parking 
over Curb 


Zapruder 

Film 

Testimony 
Clint 
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placed there. (See attached diagram of subterranean 
profile . ) 

: .My personal fee'ling is that the assassin would have 
had to undergo no risk at all if he simply remained in 
the sever cavern (the inlet.) No one could see him from 
the street and later in cover of darkness he could slip 
away easily with the aid of someone coming to pick him 
up. It is apparent to me that the crawl from the inlet 
on the North side of Elm St. up under the knoll to the 
cavern behind the wooden fence (photographs to be sent 
showing this inlet and its possibilities) would have been 
nearly Impossible because of the severly cramped space 
in the pipe which is also 15" and the very long distance 
from the street inlet to the grate behind the fence. It 
would also seem unreasonable to go from the street inlet 
to behind the fence, after the assassination, since the 
attention of the search was concentrated on the area 
behind the fence. 

The testimony of Julia Ann Kercer*certainly suggests 
the possibility that a truck, of the kind she described, 
stopped on or about the location of the llorthside Elm St. 
Storm Drain Inlet. This is visible in some pictures taken 
immediately after the assassination which you already 
have and some more which I am sending you.*(Vol.XIX, 483 ) 


Kiss Mercer stated that the truck parked with its 
wheels up on the curb. We know that the Green Ford pick- 
up was parked illegally on two counts: there is no stoppin 
at all allowed on that part of Elm St. and certainly not 
in the manner of parking with the wheels on the sidewalk. 

If the conspirators wished to conceal this storm drai 
or its cover for .a short period of time this was an ideal 
act. A rifle, a message, or possibly even a person could 
have passed through the street opening of the inlet cr in 
the case of a man, through the uncovered hatch of the 
inlet. I think that the coincidence of the location at 
which the truck stopped, the manner in which it parked, 
and the blatant type or distraction of a man strolling up 
the grassy incline in daylight with a gun case is more 
than one can accept. All of the Report is too but we've 
established that. 


The most compelling of all evid 
parts and has beer, included in your t 
The Zapruder film seen in its running 
(as - 03 1 films are usually shown er.ee 
portant of .all films, which ve are f 
"serial" form on the .a v es of life y 
ally the explicit testimony of Agent 


enee is in two 
h j u g hts 2. Ire a d y . 

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creed to watch in 



Before I explain the other conclusions I have reached 
as a result of my photographic work and other information I 
would like to ash you how would be the best way to divulge the 
above finding. You suggested tha't I write up ay conclusions and 
the supporting evidence and submit it to Ramparts or Bill Turner. 

I would include, ofcourse, all the supporting photographs and make 
available to them the film which pertains to that finding. 


My question is this. Is is best for me to write this up 
and submit the material myself, knowing that my name would be 
disclosed in the article or would It be better to maintain my 
anonymity for the purpose of future ' investigative assignments. 

I could for instance submit an article to Bill written by Lillian 
Castellano, as she was the discoverer, and tell them not to use 
my name on the photographs. 

There is one Important related consideration. While I was 
in Dallas, as I had told you, I met with two right-wing oriented 
Dallasites. These were friends of Mary 1 " ’ ! . ''.tl* s , although If they 
had any idea of how Mary was using what they tell her to aid in 
her work for you, they would probably have her shot. These two 

people are and a man named r r- rr. They have done an 

enormous amount of research and have developed enough solid evidence, 
according to Mary, to Indict several people, now I Fart of this evidence 
has been told to Mary as a way of testing her. They knew that if she 
told you and they saw it later In the press or heard of it in some 
other way, she was not reliable for secrets and, in fact , was probably 
an agent of yours. They are so right wing (1ZZI j~~TX calls General 
Walker on the phone daily and addresses him by the nickname of 
"Teddy".) Mary knew that trie information these two people had gathered 
was too important to the solution of this crime to allow to be kept 
for some futre novel or magazine expose. This type of information 
belongs in your files for prosecution briefs. She then decided to 
abandon her overt ties with your office and resign herself to the 
very dangerous job of appearing to help these two people and really 
collecting all the data so that she could then transmit it to you. 

As I told you, she has set up a situation where she will, be with 
one of these people at a time and each of them will tell her things 
which they have learned from the other, thinking that each little bit 
of information is something that Mary already know& o In this way she 
expands her own knowledge and can see more readily direction c? 

thc~ 3 people's investigation t~: '"3. Then C 3 telling you by mail or 
Boxley, or me she can get the information to you. 3ut she feels there 
is really nothing more important she can do for you, and I firmly 
agree. 



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They trusted me because I was a friend- of Mary’s; because 
I gave a superu-Hic ting- job ^of the. average, rad leal , righ'c- 

wing, young republican, student from the nut^vorld or California 
politics. Mostly, they trusted me because they wanted to know what 
l'd discovered. By the way, this was the meeting with Larry ?. 


I am aware that Gary S. would like this assignment in Dallas 
and I am convinced he would do an extremely good job. I ask only 
this. If I have built this rapf evVand you have any desire to use it 
for more penetration of -this bizarre group (investigating eft a plot 
that leads most probably to their own back door) wouldn't it be 
to our advantage to divulge my name in the Ramparts article? This 
would further establish my interest and my work on the case and 
solidify my base as U.C.L.A. diverting my affiliation from the 
possibility of my having connections with your office. Or would this 
be a mistake since these people most assuredly feel Ramparts is 
a Communist Journal. Or if you plan to send Gary to penetrate this 
group, or no one at all, would it be best that I keep ay name a 
secret. Whatever you decide I will do. 




One further point having to do with this subject. "While in 
Dallas I made some photographs duplicating some of those photos 
in the Volumes attributed to Oswald. The ones he took down a lonely 
railroad tracks just happened to be about twenty feet from the back 
porch of Harry Olsen's apartment. Turning on that point about 90 de- 
grees toward the Bast one sees the turn that the motorcade made onto 
Turtle Creek Rd . Considering that there is an abundance of shrubbery 
between this point on the tracks and the right turn from Lemmon Ave. 
(I think) onto Turtle Creek, this very possibly, could have been an 
earlier possible location from which an assassin could fire. There 
Is every indication that this would have been an adequate location 
for the * Triangulation" and especially for a speedy escape. I think 
the only drawbacks are that this is not more .than one block from 
General Walker’s mansion on Turtle Creek Rd., and that from these 
positions there could be only minimal elevation for aiming. 


I also took some photos of the back of Walker's residence 
as Oswald was to have done. I* took two of the front of his house 
one of the side from an alley, and two from the alley in back. The 
view is ■ unmistakably what is printed in the volumes where the ayster- 
ious "exploding license plate" is shown. b*nf ortunately, General talker 
himself, decided as he watched me (and two boys who were assisting 
me - one of them Mary's son), that I was not doing the test 'thing for 
xy country. 


He O'.me cut of his back door and walked to us sfc 


ir.ad lew in 


the alley behind his house. Hem lining the danger* - of this type cf en- 
counter I walked to him aggressively and told him how p round I was to 


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story about him for the U.C.L.A. newspaper ( I thought that was a 
lot better than the ?R23 rRZSS) and that I had wanted a picture cf 
his house. I also told him my name and shook his hand. My misfortune. 
He loomed at me totally suspicious but unable to really disbelieve me 

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and explained that I had read everything he had written. I guess T 

now he has written something because this statement on my part 
did not crystallize his suspicion. Ee replied , "l'm working," and 
he had . an unmistakable feminine manner about him when he replied. 

He' commented that I had gone about my work in a strange way (not 
asking his permission for the photograph) and asked where I was 
staying. I told him I was staying with Dr. Haxfield, a man who is 
a small clinic owner in Dallas along with his brother, very close 
friends with all the right-wing leaders of the Dallas community 
(according to Mary) and also, strangely enough, the pround possessors 
of an autographed picture of President Johnson. I had stayed at 
the Statler the week before in Dallas. The Drs. Kaxfield had made 
the reservation for me and had lent me a camera. They had also 
spent some tine talking to me in their clinic. All this is because 
they are acquainted with my father and his work. They usually ent- 
ertain my father when he has to make a business trip to Dallas. 

So my story to General Walker wduld stand up if he checked. 

After he talked to us he said that he wasn't sure of my 
rights meaning that I was standing on his land (the alley) and 
I said I was sorry as I left. I thanked him anyway. The bastard. 

Prom the end. of the alley where it met the street I took a picture 
of him standing there. The three of us then went down to the corner 
where our' rented car was waiting. ¥e got in rather quickly (we never 
ran) and began to pull away when ’-Talker turned out of the alley and 
down the sidewall. All he wanted was the license number which he 
definitely got. I snapped one more^ picture of ( him as we pulled away. 

Ee didn't see me take this one . *- 3 


Kary said that there was no danger in the incident because she 
would call the girl (one of the two people at the meeting) and she, 
in turn, would call ITalker corroborating my good rightist background 
and my intentions to find the .truth out about. Oswald's Communist 
friends. I am sure Mary has done this.. 


I wanted you to take this into consideration for the future. 
There is definitely more photographic work to be done in Dallas as 
I will soon ‘describe . And if -you wish me to pursue this infiltration 
in the small group ox right wing investigators I will. My established 
"cover" will work for me I believe, but that is something you can 
judge much better than I. Maybe I have gotten a little^too close. 

If you do agree that you should assign a man to this Dallas post 
other than Bosley who is well known by these people as' one of "Garris 
-son's men" then I would be glad to do what I can. As I said I think 
Gary could do a thoroughly competent job oh this also. I do believe 


this type 
gat ion . 


would be an immeasurable plus for the invest!* 


The rest of my findings in Dallas: 


2) I took pictures from the roof of the Dallas 


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Hocorcs Bldg, (film and stills). I took pictures frc; 
the second floor of the Dal-fex Bldg, .and from the 




floor of 


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Building aiming out at Elm St. and also looking out the window 
to Houston St. by the fire escape. I was able to take the photos y r 

of the entire Plaza from the roof of the Records 3uilding because 
I made friends with a negro maintenance man working in that building 
named John Luster, 31, an employee of the Building since 1962. His 
address is 3500 Meadow St. Apt. “ 2 05. 

New witness a) Luster was a witness to the assassination who has 
to the Assess- never been questioned by anyone and was very willing 
ination to tell, what he knew. He said that he heard three 

shots but when I questioned him further he said that 
they were not single shots they were groups of shots 
(three) which he took to be spontaneously exploding 
firecrackers. He viewed the President on Houston and 
after the motorcade turned the corner he heard the 
shots and thinking they were only firecrackers he enter- 
Sldewalk ed the sidewalk, street-level, elevator (no one ever 

Elevator mentioned this! I have film of him going dowQ it). 

He descended to the basement in the elevator along 
with three other men whose identity he could not re- 
member. He did think that one or mere of these men 
were strangers to him. This is puzzling because there 
is really no reason for a man to go down in this ele- 
vator unless he has work in the basement. There is 
a much more practical entrance to the rest of the build- 
ing around the corner. I still need still photos of 
this. The roll I took of this did not come out due 
to a camera malfunction. Also on this roll were photos 
from the Dal-Tex Building and from the T53D. 

b) The Dal-Tex Building still photos did not come out 
but I feel that we must reevaluate our contention 
that a shot was fired from the second floor and con- 
sider a shot from the seventh. or top floor. The isol- 
ation of a small office, one of a row of offices whose 
windows face out on the Houston 3t. side. This window 
is well hidden from the street by the shadow cast by 
the T33D and because of the fire escape which is attached 
covering part*' of the window. See the Altgens Photo. 

Also in this sort of office enclosure is a clutter- of 
racks of clothing. Perfect soundproofing for any noise 
and also an ideal abundance of place to hide a rifle . 

On the second floor there is a good vantage point and 
the shots fired according to the analysis of the Zap- 
ruder film indicate that the second floor was a likely 
perch for the assassin. However, this window is in 
plain view of the entire floor of tips tuildiv (see nrv 
aerial shot of the roof of the bulla f f there 
were any other spectators on that floor they would have 
seen the assassin or at least would have had any easy 
view of him had they been so inclined. His getaway would 


nave seen 
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difficult 


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if he made any strange movements 
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Since the "rague Chip \ in the^curb would line up 
with either floor (seventh or second) it does not 
effect this observation .‘^■The. angle of trajectory 
Dal-Tex would ,aost probably, suggest the second floor be- 
Building tween the two drawing a point from the window 'through 
Conclusion the president's head to the "Tagus chip". All of these 
observations do not rule out the possibility of a 
floor s one where between the second and the seventh in 
the Dal-Tex Building having been the "nest" of the 
assassin. 1 was able to taL-ce these pictures because 
■ of the very cooperative ladies who are the secretaries 

in the front office of the second floor and because 
there was some sort of office party on the Seventh floor 
and I was not noticed. I wonder now what kind of office 
party they would have on November 22, 1967 at about 11:30 AM 
Since the fils did not come out on this building I withhold 
rey conclusions about this until later although I have 
always felt and siill do, that there was at least one shot 
fired from this building. 



c) 


T33D 

Findings 


From the Texas School Book Depository Building I was 
able to take' some film and a few stills on the third 
floor. A rather kind secretary allowed me to do this 
although it is against the strictest regulations. On 
the fourth floor, the highest floor to which the elevator 
will ascend even though five (incl. the "5") are on the 
push-button control panel in the elevator. The fourth 
floor people are well trained and told me to leave the 
building. Then I went to the third. I was also able to 
get into the back stairway by an "2k IT" dcor. This is 
the stairway Oswald allegedly used, talking up to the 
fourth floor one finds that the door to continue to the 
fifth floor is completely blocked. Boxes are stacked in 
front of it as if it was never intended to be a door; and 
to anyone who didn't know it was there it would not be 
visible. The freight elevator is only twenty- feet , at most, 
from the stairway marked "2k IT 1 . 1 I was able to take some 
photos and some film of the loading docks on both the 
South (Daftly Plaza) side of the TSBD and the rear or 
Houston S + . side. There are two docks. The small street 
that runs parallel to 21m Bt. above (north of) the Cement 
Pergola not only services the truck entrance for the load- 
ing dock but also has a back entrance (from the BailrOad 
yards to the TSBD) leading out of £ make -shift garage. The 
photos I send you on this will be much more self explana- 
tory than my description. 


d) 


vy findings were along the lines of escape which 
have been easily possible from both the Dal-Tex 
Texas School Book Depository Buildings.. The rear 
docks of both buildings empty onto a point sever 
north up Houston St. from the intersection at 21 


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on the Grassy Knoll, following the description of its route 
according to the testimony of Lee Bowers Jr. 
to his coworker, ■ who now works in the North 
tower, would pass the rear entrance to the 
make-shift garage, and then pass the TSBD load- 
ing dock on Houston 3t and then pass the load- 
ing dock on the sane fetreet from the Dal-Tex 
Building and then have an easy drive away from 
the assassination site and northward to the sub- 
urbs of Dallas. 


Two cars 
fled from 
the Parking 
behind 
fence 
around 
rear of 
T33D 


Lot 

the 

and 

the 

the 


Craig state- 
ment coincide; 
with possible 
Gswald escape 
route 


Furthermore, I think that the man Roger Craig 
saw (Oswald or whoever) was able to exit the TSBD 
unnoticed by coxing down the freight elevator and 
out the loading dock, or the make-shift garage then 
cross the street amidst the other panicked spectators 
onto the knoll and then down the knoll to where the 
man was waiting in the Hash Rambler. 


Craig saw 

another 

witness 


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Craig w as there on November 
took pictures of the memorial se 
anying Penn Jones and he pointed 
me^a man, a negro about 22 years 
was definitely a witness to the 
corner of Main and Houston Sts. 
his name and he said Charles Den 
having been a witness to the ass 
was positive. I have three diffe 
boy which I will send you. 


22, 19-57 while I 
rvice. He "was aecomp- 
outj to both Penn and 
old, whc Craig said 
assassination on the 
Penn asked this boy 
man . The boy denied 
assignation but Craig 
rent pictures of this 


:} Behind the Pergola on the end closest to the TSBD and 
not the end at the Parking lot behind the fence there 
is a small .wooden shack. There are probably tools and 
' equipment inside for Dealey Plaza maintenacne workers 
or possibly a heating unit or the like. But there is 
a door on both the Ivest and Bast side of this small 
shack and^/iiding. in It of<\person orcvrifle is not at 
all impossible^ The doors were all rather ‘worn when I 
first visited the spot four weeks ago but on my trip 
a week ago one of the doors had been replaced with 
a new and sturdy one, both are well padlocked. 


3) 

examination c 
tne possible 
testimony of 
‘escane needs 
actual action 
elevator . 


I think I have covered all of the points of this physical 


f the area cut 'I do feci that much can be developed about 
exits and entrances which might have bee ^ used. Hith the 
some witnesses as support and the probability of various 
of the assassins it is not difficult to reconstruct the 
s of the assassins . Remember now the street-level sidewall 


from 1 .also think that I cam prove to your satisfaction the exact 
spot A which the shots were fired behind the fence by considering the 
rather restricted vantage points of ether than a very few precise lo- 
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phone the arrival of four squad cars of the Dallas Police made 
me think along the lines of escape in a more real sense than before. ? 

I locked myself in Mr . XXXXXXX 1 s car and ■ he explained to the two cops 
who were about to arrest his son that they were Just taking some harm- 
less photos. I assure you that the Plaza is well watched. But as you 
told me before we can always move faster than they can so, consequently , 

I have much valuable material safe with me now. 

4) Prom my meeting with the two people and P'ary, X derived 
the following. Larry p. identified himself in several of the photographs 
that were shown. All were slides projected onto a screen. Larry ?. 
and his wife were there and were totally cooperative. True to the 
irony of the Warren Report he is about the most unlikely candidate for 
assassin since Santa Claus. He did tell an important story of his arrest. 


on 


After hearing of the assassination on the radio of the 
boffee shop where he was having lunch a block away from Bealy Flaza he 
decided to go directly to the site to see what he could. He ran down 
to the Plaza and stopped at a point in front of the Dal-Tex Building 
Elm St. A policeman who was still reacting to the immediacy of the 
assassination (this was barely minutes later) was instructing people 
to stand clear of the intersection of Elm and Houston as his coords 
were investigating the TS3D. One policeman asked Larry to hold one 
end of the restraining rope for the side of Elm in front of the Dal- 
Tex Building. He did this for about three minutes until more police- 
men arrived on the scene and one of them took the rope from him. Be- 
coming once again aware of his own situation Larry decided to call his 
boss at the Bank where he worked to tell them he would not be back to 
work that afternoon. He asked a lady in the doorway of the Dal-Tex bldg, 
where a phone was. She said he could make a call on the third floor from 
the office phone where her desk was. Larry and the lady rode up in the 
elevator with several other people, some of them possibly policemen but 
Larry is not sure. After the elevator stopped on some of the lower 
floors it stopped on the third and he 
directed him to her desk in an office 
phone. She then left him alone in the 
receiver a man entered the office ar.d 
was wearing ’a work shirt of some kind 
some authority there. Xnen La'rry told 

the man told him to leave the building. The man's tone was curt and ra- 
ther stern for the situation. larry then proceeded down the elevator 
and out the same door on Elm 3t . He stopped to ask someone where a phone 
was and as someone told, him there was one in the Records guild!. y -.cross 
the street a man, almost positively the same man from the third floor 
v;ho had told Larry to get out, leaned out the third floor window and 
yelled loudly to the policemen there, "There's your mar. 11 an: 
to Larry. The Police quickly grabbed Larry and placed him under 
Tho v walked him down Houston street to the Jail 


got out along with the lady. She 
and told him he could use the 
office. As Larry picked up the 
asked him what he was doing, he 
and gave the Impression of having 
him he Just wanted to make a call 


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er the" arresting officers leading him towards the Sheriffs office. After 
describing this part of the story Larry told us that he was kept ir. 
Decker's office until about 7:30 P.H. that evening when he was" released . 
said he was the last to be released and that the others (about ' 


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Larry could not describe the other men very accurately , he 
claimed his memory of the incident was not clear because he was ■ f 

mainly upset with-his own situation.. Slone of the men he was held 
with talked to each other nor to him. He did mention that all the 
other men were dressed extremely sloppy and that he was the one 
with a plaid or checked sport coat and an overcoat. Larry said that 
if there was anything we would like to ask him at any time he would 
be willing to help. 

5) Considering all of the above I want to propose another 
project for your evaluation. I have already begun to make a film for 
my UCLA project, as you know, I had intended to make it a vehicle for 
showing the Moorman Blow-ups and still feel it should be. Unclosed is 
the Free Press treatment of the Blow-ups which I know you must have seen. 
However, what would you think of this. A film suggesting, not definitely 
or factually restricted, what type of -activity might have taken place 
in the instrumentation of the assassination and the escape of the var- 
ious assassins. That is, a pictorial view'* of the physical location of 
Healey plaza (realizing that it will soon be destroyed - do you know 
that the Dallas City Council actually sent a telegram to Mrs. Kennedy 
asking her to dedicate the new T John F. Kennedy Parking GsrageMI) In- 
corporated in this film would be the disclosure of the possible use 
of the storm drain; entrance, use and escape; the positions and viewpoints 
of each assassin behind the fence; the possible use of the grate to 
the storm drain behind the fence; the view of Lee Bowers of the escape 
of the two men behind the fence and the path. the cars took as they left 
the parking lot; then possibly picking up each assassin from the docks 
of the 13 3D and then the Dal-Tex building continuing on northerly away 
from downtown Dallas; The escape of the assassin from the Records building 
by surfacing up the street level elevator and walking down Houston street 
(possibly not using the elevator to emerge but rather for Jack Ruby to 
dlssappear after viewing the assassination - as seen in Willis =3) then 
seeing the corner of Commerce St. where a Hash Rambler picked up a man 
(ref .'""Three Assassins Killed Kennedy" Sat. Eve, Post) and watching the 
Nash Rambler continue down Record St. turning left onto Elm 3t . con- 
tinueing down to the -Grassy Knoll where a man (Oswald or "Second Oswald") 
comes down the incline from the Southwest loading dock and gets into 
the car. 

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All of these things could be supported by narrative explain- 
ing the testimony to support this curiously well fittin arrangement of 
the puzzle pieces. Intercut into the actual scene of the shots and that 
time* period would be the view point, of President Kennedy himself, ?.r 
he saw the men behind the fenbe, dramatically augmented by the use of 
a zoom technique and also the view of the man in the storm drain open- 
ing. Cuts of the pictures in the Life Magazine photographs cf the 
assassination from z a prudery Hughes, Towner, Willis etcetera would 
& i y rj ^ v n f i lr. b 5 1 ^ 9 r s 3 r, 3 9 of r ^ 1 i b y o f tbi 9 i 0 1 ' 0 n J : s n ' v 0 \ 1 } 0 h-? \ v > 
to locate the audience viewpoint. Finally, the shr ing of the blowups 
from the Moorman Photo without explanation, merely starting with the 
original photo in its entirety and proceeding on to the gradual devel- 
opment of enlargement after enlargement would dramatically indict the 
audience to move from their apathetic uselessness to some sort of feel- 
ing which might cause -them to act or. what they have seen. 


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This would be an alternative to the Ramparts article or 
could be an ". additional Introduction of the discoveries. I -will * 

do whatever. you feel is the best in your judgment. " 

6) I have had considerable trouble locating the "grip" from 
that Kan From U.F.O.L.E, show who told me about the "Wash- 
ington caper. I do have a phone number now and will pursue that. 

7) The radio announcer in Santa Barbara has turned up some 
interesting information which is probably periferally related to 
the whole. He is writing it up and will send it. I will relay that 
to you . 

IMPORT AW? 

3") As I told you on the phone the FA22 PRESS, more specif- 
ically Paul Bberle, Advertising Sales Manager and reporter, received 
a telephone call from an anonymous caller. This man was German and 
about forty or fifty from his voice. Hebe tated that h e ha d im migrate d 
to the in 1 963._and_ -met with a fPltP h3 ^f^rlTs~~u~pcn arriving. T his 

Tf r i a s a Lu theran Pin is ter from some Southe rn s tate (not t old ) . 

The min ister tr i ed to d 1 s uad e ~Thih^^Tr~ r: "r~i' : E;-ii -- r atITr^~s~ y IrT P tHrrtr • 
x'H s~~I- r e_s 1 d e a t ( -J ?■ F ) who w as a bad man .“'"a 0 o m mu n 1st sym^athleerT^mr-i 

persons Known to him. 



" —t £ q?s'->ss.1na.L-e. 1 . i n a_few nonins a y 

^This sta t e ment w as made 4 t o olnfto ths ~ pr i o r po t~He assas sTh at i oo~T 
The cal ier described this minis ter as a"n'hYG~e , c nai , a no saTiTT that h a 
has , a s he described the potential assassin^ , ' antl-he n n e d y , Right- w I n r , 
and rather outspoken,. The caller said that the minister was definite 
about his prediction not speculating idley. ■ T he caller sai d tha t the ^ 
min li ter's name was ART 013 HAVE AT RE, and sale that he -'now r esli 5s in 
T GR0 , 'T0. ~GA .:ata. .This call took "place on Saturday, November in, TToT 
Greater importance is realized in relation to this call when we exam- 
ine the exhibit . of 52 AY T Qk , YOL. XX, page 37o, where, in Ran tor's 
notes he states, " Ask Fritz who -2 .0. preacher was... tipped about mail 

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'Regarding "the discovery of the rifle. Finally, the caller to the 
FRET PRS33, would net give his name and when pressed by- Paul sberle 
to do so, offered his phone number which he said was (los Angeles area 
code 213) 517-3377. Up cm checking this, number i found that no. such 
combination exists in Lrir. — ^ Kc ' wA S v f ■ 

8) I would strongly recommend that you call K 3 OMAN at his 
latest Cleveland, Ohio, number as contained in my Memb~rb~you . The - . 
number '3TY“fr=t"" f 6h‘r" 51 6 -- 332-2333_. I feel that there is much you 
can extra'll — fT JTr‘'1T:fe"'T.afT5Tflk i t hls'^man has gathered and that his 
caution"- in contacting you is not unreasonable considering what his 
apparent experience has been in the past. His actions when he first 
disclosed that he had this information (i.e. a press conference) were 


rather strange 


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call him, his request was for a personal call rather than one from 
me or anyone on the staff, and that he b g r e n t > Immn r itw— — * 


inr put on th e w itne ss stand so that he could d i vu ire h i s 1 r, fo rmat ion 
"toy 0 u and not risk his o wn , personal" we hr-OPsth g any f u r t h e r . 


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9) Maggie and Ray ’ 
at you make a n-ore public 
Government prod ucing, f or 


arcus and possibly some others have suggested 
statement about the possibiltiy-of the ' 
all to e-gamine, at long last, a set of totally 
false X-rays and photographs consistent with the false findings of the 
phony Report. I realize that you made this- -statement clearly in your 
piece "Liberty and Justice for All", which is a fine, fine work and 
should be published, but 1 know that Maggie and myself feel that it 
cannot be said enough. Especially when you are in a television inter- 
view-/ situation where you make reference to the X-rays and the photo- 

their 
whe ra- 
the 

explod- 
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graphs in connection with the Commissioners attempt to maintain 
innocence. It would be advantageous that in the same interview, 
ever tactically best, you told of the drastic measures to which 
commission and their aides went to alter the evidence (i.e. the 
ing trunk of the Chevy in ‘.talker 1 s driveway) and explained that 
would be nothing for the Government with all their facilities and 
endless blank check of the taxpayer's money to produce an infallible 
set of x-rays of the shot's path directly from the sixth floor of the 
T5B3. This would be an instance Where another murder, that of the 
photographic subject, would definitely be in the "National Interest." 

10} Maggie reminded me that Harry Olsen lives in Long Beach, 

\ and could be questioned anytime. Maybe, you would want to do this 
7 the next time you're here. 

11 ) My brother, Andrew Jaffa, Newsweek, Atlanta Bureau, has 
met with me this last Sunday. He is firmly convinced that the Sat. 
Evening Lost Article is the truth and that there should be a new 
inquiry. Ke is firmly convinced that you are the best thing this 
country has going for it. He will do anything to help. He is in 
a precarious position. Aynesworth, he predicts, will be taken off 
the assignment of the assassination because Newsweek will want to 
change their position subtly as they have already begun to do when 
they're ove red the Thompson book. - My brother said that if you have 
any information .that you want to break in an -important way via the 
magazine he will write the story and submit it Just as you approve 
it.. He will quit if it si altered and printed in a a untrue manner. 
Most of all, he hopes that you will give him something to connect 
Oswald and Ruby, since he understands that any evidence that might 
prejudice the Shaw trial is riot possible. He thinks there is a rood 
chance that if Aynesworth is bounced he will gat the assignment las 
he is the number one investigative reporter in the sour them bureau. 
Ur to now his assignment has always been the Civil Rights outbursts. 
If yen would like to talk to him or to tell him to tell the sag -tine 
to go to -hell he Is at your service and promises that he wi.ll never 
divert f rc ... the path of strict objectivity. Nice, that he has fin»~ “ 
cone aro l ' , even though it is plenty late for any man who 




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contlnue his investigation and when he is finished to tell us all 
how it came out. The bum that wrote this article makes the same ' { 
damn mistake all of these capons make when he says that your inves- 
tigation fascinates him (rather feminine reaction) but that he did 
not read enough -evidence in the newspapers to convince him that, as 
judge, jury and defense attorney, he should convict the defendant. 

At least the C-oon has the direction now and if idiots like this one 
can find it, it should follow that the rest of the press has a chance 
to find it. 


14) There is a book on the paperback stand in Dallas which I 
had not seen prior to my trip there which tells the story in a fict 
form but probably comes closer than much of the non-fiction about t 
case. "The Trumpets of November" -- ''The Militants" (double titled) 
is written by Nesley 3. Thurston (his life is sort of on the rocks 
should think if he plans to reside in Texas). I won't bother you wi 
reading it - I will do that first and tell you what Is important ab 
it but I will quote what it says on the cover. ; 

"This is fiction. But the fantastic events of that terror- 
ridden day in November when our beloved President was murdered were the 
fulfillment of THE MILITANTS ' Satanic plot and could have been true.Con- 
suned by hate and strange lusts, the conspirators of THE TRUMPETS 0? 
NOVEMBER head for a street in Dallas. "BASK COVER: "ICO FANTASTIC? A 
retired American general masterminds a pl ot for the violent take-o- 


ion 

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o ft he V . 3 . Pre s idea t’ J oh rf ? 


Kennedy heads the list ~of those to be 
he facts in hand but cannot stop *he 
A daring departure from conventional 

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numeral. A top reporter has 

events of NOVEMBER 22, 1955. « — * 

fiction, THE TRUMPETS OF NOVEMBER projects what is known - and no 
cnown - about Kennedy's assassination into a novel of treachery, 

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Lsa and psycho-sexuality no more incredible than the daily headlir 


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In conjunction with. the totally incredible, ~but very true, 
chronology and analysis by Joachim Joesten in his case against you know 
who, I feel that this book has something to say. Just the cover is enough 
to let people have a bit of the shock. Joesten is truly a genius when 
it comes to incite in this case. 


I am contacting that lawyer in L . A . to continue with our 
Investigation- of that thing, 'r/e will be subtle and make sure not to 
let the slightest hint of our objective slip. I will not even tell him 
what he is looking for exactly, just to hunt for evidence of Shaw. 

Would you do r.a a favor on the lines of the draftboard 
letter? I -need a copy of the letter so that I can give it to my lawyer* 
He will then tell me what to do to yet reclassified but I do need the 
copy as soon as it would be possible to send it. 

$ . 

I will send photos a.:- I make then and I -.rill show what 
we have developed to the "lit onion" who Is- interested as you well know. 
Maybe he will be motivated to help with the film. 



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you ax'e welcome to bring your family if you like and if 
that is desireable to you. I have contacted the girl who did some 
research for us here and she continues her research ana wishes you 

well. 

. . Thank you for bearing with this rather long account of 

all that I felt I should relay to you. I leave you with these words: 
"Terror is not a new' weapon. Throughout history it has 
been used by those who could not prevail either by persuasion 
or by example. 3ut inevitably they fail, either because men are 
not afraid to die for a life worth living or because the terror- 
ists themselves ccne to realize that free men cannot be fright- 
ened by threats, and that aggression will meet its own response. 

John ?. Kennedy 


Inevitably they fail. 


Respectfully yours, 

s teve^7^/^ 

p.S. 11/29 I have now viewed all the film from my last visit to 
Pallas. I was unfortuneately not familiar enough with this new 
camera to realize that for that early hour of the morning I would 
need a special (fast) film to capture the car going by the storm drain. 

I have also found that due to a camera malfunction the stills 
of important viewpoints from the Pal -Tex Bldg., the Roof of the Records 
Bldg.; the TSBP loading dock; the street elevator on Houston St.; and 
from the storm drain did not come out satisfactorily. In the case of 
the stills the film had torn Inside the camera and the movie film was 
Just too dark. 

I spoke tonlte to Mary and she is making arrangements for me 
to return to Pallas a week from this coming Friday, on December 8th. 

I should stay there for the three days of the weekend. I will film 
everything that I lack from the last trip and I will try to meet again 
with* those two people. Baring unforseen Interference I will plan every 
bit of photography very carefully so as not to draw attention and I will 
spread the shooting cut over two days so that I can do a little both days 
Unless I hear orders from you to the contra ire I will assume that you. 
approve but I will not divulge my affiliation if I am caught (still a 
simple U.C.L.A. film student with strange Interests.) I enclose the 
receipts from the last trip as you asked. I understand the financial 


situatin' so I ask no reimbursement 
sore help and I have 
The lawyer we 


or this trip — Mary has offered 
nough for the film. 

about has some definite ideas about how t 


talked 


«- e t sore financial help for the film work I have been doing and I '.'ill 
clear any offers through you. I think' also that Mr: tor. I will have some 
ideas along that line -- not fc'r any project of a big film but Just to 
pay for the several hundred dollars of film that I have already dene 
and will need to do of still photos and for sound. 

Your testimonial for Maggie’s book cheered her considerably and 
s>e is very grateful.- 3he is writing you a letter and she will ,be levy- 


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memorandum 

July 7, 1967 


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TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

FROM: Jl'M ALCOCK, Executive Assistant District Attorney 


RE: Clifford Joseph Wormser, Rt. 6, Box 584, Old Gentilly Hwy. 

242-4418 (Business & Residence) 
Owner of Cliff's Junkyard 


On July 7, 1967, at approximately 3:00 P.M. I interviewed 
(Mr. CLIFFORD JOSEPH WORMSER in the office of Louis Ivon. During 
our interview MR. WORMSER'S attorney, SALVATORE PANZECA, was 
present. MR. WORMSER is the owner of Cliff's Junkyard located at 
Rt. 6, Box 584, Old Gentilly Highway. 



MR. WORMSER owned a junkyard 

bearing the same name at 3800 S.t- Ferdinand Stree t in the Ci ty of 


New Orleans. 

ice inter 


s remembered by MR. WORMSER, gSmebime i , n the month!*!) 

^dT*‘ tjep'ucm ker 1963*jLEE HARVEY OSWALD, his wife and baliv and too 

Mother male s came to the junkyard and sol d MR. W nnM ^' p - rj n 1 

Pont iacHTila tionwaaon^ for j unk . MR. WORMSER cannot recall the 
specific date this transaction took place. 


QSWALD, his two companion s and his wife and baby came to 
th e junkyard in an o i^ mocltV ..Mr pit n~hr>^t r 4^00 p.M. Upon arrival, 
one of Oswald’s companions, a dark complex i - ’tied male , (probably of 
Latin extraction), addressed MR. WORMSER by the name of "CLIFF" 
and said that they had an automobile that they wanted to sell for 
y j, j» -- ( — r u junk. The stationwagon to be sold was pushed to the junkyard by 

car OSWALD was riding in. OSWALD was not the driver of the 
car. The Latin indicated the car to be sold belonged to OSWALD . 

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OSWALD and his other male companion did very little or no talking 
at all. 




At one point MRS. WORMSER started for the car in which 
MRS. OSWALD and the baby were seated in an apparent attempt to 
strike up a conversation with MRS. OSWALD. At this time the Latin 
told her than the woman wou ld not understand her becaus e she was 
"Russian and didnofcJspeak ftny English. 


The car was sold for $15.00 after OSWALD and the Latin 
took two tires from it. All told, OSWALD and his companions and 
wife and baby were in MR. WORMSER'S presence for about a half hour, 

MR. WORMSER has never conveyed this information to any 
Federal Agency. 

MALE #1 DESCRIPTION 

Abou t 5 ' 6 " tal l 

< park Com plexion (Latin type]T ) 

Black curTy'Tiair 


Approximately 165 lbs. 



ibocky fram5^> 

Approx ima to ly 23 to 25 years of age 



Wearing dirty clothes, somewhat similar in 
appearance to a mechanic who had been working 
on automobiles. 

This man spoke English without an accent. 

No noticeable scars. 


MALE #2 DE SCRIPTION 

Long Blond hair and long sideburns 
About 5' 10" tall 
Very slender Build 

Approximately 22 to 24 years of age 
No noticeable scars 


OSWALD'S DESCRIPTION 
Slender 

Blondish, Sandy hair 
l ^fulir head of ha~tT*^ 

Wearing khaki pants and a sport shirt of unknown color 
Appeared to be approximately 27 or 28 years of age 
No noticeable scars 

Neat appearing and no growth of beard 


MR. WORMSER stated that the woman in the car with the baby 
appeared to have black hair but could not furnish any further 
de s c r .ip t i on . The biibv appeared to be a very tender age . 

MR. PANZECA at the outset of the interview informed me 
that MR. WORMSER would probably be vised as a defense witness in 
the SHAW trial. The obvious strategy here being that if the man 
identified as OSWALD by MR. WORMSER was, in fact, LEE HARVEY 
OSWALD, and he did not have a beard at this time, it could be 
used to impeach the testimony of RUSSO who described OSWALD as 
having a slight whisker growth at the meeting in DAVID FERRIE'S 
apartments 

MR. WORMSER does not believe that he could identify 
either the Latin on the other male with the long blond hair if he 
saw them again today. 




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April 11, 1969 


CONFIDENTIAL 


MEMORANDUM 


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TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

FROM: ANDREW SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney 

RE: SHAW LEADS II 

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23) I-1RS. JEANNE KELTON LEAD : 

(See SANDERS' Memo of 4/11/68) 


MRS. KELTON lived at 905 Governor Nicholls 
Street from 1963 to 1966. She said that 
SHAW used to visit a young man who lived in 
the apartment building quite often. She 
said that the young man was "gay" and referred 
to SHAW as his "patron". MRS. KELTON doesn't 
remember the boy's name, but she said that 
JOHN CARTER who also lived at 905 Governor 


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Nicholls could also give us some information 
on this gay friend of SHAW's. MRS. KELTON 
also remembers seeing SHAW going in and out 
of Cosmos’ Bar on several occasions. 



24) DR. JACOB HAROLD KETY LEAD: 


(See SANDERS’ Memo of 2/14/68) 

DR. KETY told SANDERS that GREG DONNELLY who 
lives in Abita Springs, could give us some 
information on CLAY SHAW. DONNELLY said that 
he knew CLAY SHAW when he was poor and before 
SHAW was "adopted” by BRENT. DONNELLY, who is 
gay, lives with CARL CRAMER, a sculptor, and 
openly says that they are married to each other 
Their phone number in Abita Springs is 892-2187 




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JACK FRAZIER LEAD : 

(See FRAZIER letters of 1/1/68 and 12/29/67, SANDERS' 
memo of 3/6/68, Sciambra memo of 9/16/68 and REID 
memo of 9/25/68) 

Perhaps some time should be spent cultivating 
FRAZI ER . He could be a good source of information, 
He ran the Ryder Coffee House where, according to 
several people, OSWALD frequented. H e was a 
friend of THORJSLEY, W ILL BRA DY, IV AN COTT MANN. 
HOWA RD CO HEN, JOHN CAMUS, and HELEN GLADSTONE 
(all Ryder House ^regulars) . One 


rumor 


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he to ok a 
'con^TT^e " has 


trip to Mexico with OS WALD and 
denied this) . 


He has said 

that he believes BrSBy’Is” deportation and 
OSWALD'S leaflet distribution are connected 
in some way. He said, ”1 think that BRADY 
was deported because the CIA wanted him out 
of the country." According to DAPHNE 
. s STAPELTON, who lived in one of the Ryder 

P >. r^JuA'^-v j{ouse Apartments, OSWALD came to the Ryder 

' ' House one day and asked her "Is JACK here?" 

When she said, no, OSWALD then wrote his 
name on a piece of paper and told her to, 
"Give i t to JACK and tell him I was here." 
FRAZIER has denied all of this to Barbara 
Reid and Harold Weisberg, however, he did 

say that as best as he can remember, he has 

never met LEE HARVEY OSWALD, but he cannot 
rule out the possibility. 






26) HOWARD COHEN LEAD : 

(See FRAZIER letter of 12/29/67, Sciambra memo 
of 9/16/68, Reid memo of 9/25/68) 

COHEN's name has come up several times in 
connection with OSWALD. He worked at the 
Ryder Coffee House and lived in one of the 
upstairs apartments. He was a friend of all 
the Ryder House regulars- He led a Marxist 
discussion group at the Ryder House. 
According to STAPELTON, OSWALD went to 
COEiEN's apartment looking for him one day, 
but COHEN was not at home. A last check, 
according to Reid, COHEN was in Japan. 





27) JACK BURNSIDE LEAD : (See BURNSIDE memo) 




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BURNSIDE in my opinion is worth talking to 
again. He was a friend of all the regulars 
at the Ryder Coffee House, especially 
THORNLEY. JACK FRAZIER pointed him out as 
someone itfho may be able to give us some 
information on OSWALD and THORNLEY. JER y was 
su pposedly in Fong's Restaurant on Decatur 
Street with THORNLEY when OSWAL D came in to 
meet THO RNLEY . H e told this to someone and 
^a Id jthat THORNLEY^ i n t r ^uced~Htirnxr^SMM >D . 
howeve r L yjh en co n f r on ted with thi s by Weisb e r g 
and Reid, he denied it. 












23) JOHN CAMUS LEAD : (See FRAZIER letter of 1/1/68) 




* Y> CAMUS worked at the Ryder Coffee House as 

a photographer. He was a friend of all the 
' regulars, e specially BRADY and thornley . 

Supposedly Se or HELEN GLADSTONE, who took 
care of BRADY's affairs when he was deported) 
have negatives of the pictures that he took 
at the Ryder House. (Reid knows how to 
contact him) 


<3*1 


29) IVA N KOTTMANN LEAP; (See SANDERS ' 




IVAN had a 
at 514 Bcy/rbo 
He freqjjfented 
knew all the regulars. 
If no one has talked 
talking to. 


of 3/6/68) 


cuss ion group /St his apartment 
Street every Frida^ night. 

,the Ryder Coffee House and 

specially THORNLEY . 
him, he is worth 


KOTTMANN alleg 
able to locate 



is gay. (Reid may\be> 




30) WILL BRADY LEAD: (See BRADY file) 


jaa* 



BRADY could be a good source of information 
especially in regards to SHAW, OSWALD and 
THORNLEY. He is now in New York, and 
Weisberg has his address. He is worth 
talking to if someone is in the New York 
area . 


31) PAT and PATTIE GLEASON LEAD : (See Reid memo) 

The GLEASONS lived in an apartment above the 
Ryder Coffee House. According- to STflPKT.TO_N f 
J pATTIE was with her wh e n OSWALn oeste to the 
Ryder Coffee Ho use and asked her for .TACK 
FRAZIER ^. Subsequently, the GLEASONS were 
supposedly seen sitting at a table with 
OSWALD and "a couple of other people" in the 
Ryder Coffee House. B -(Reid may be able to 
locate . ) 


32) L ONNIE GOLDFINCEi LEAD : (See Reid memo) 



GOLDFINCH is an ex-FBI informer who als o, 
worked for GUY BA NNISTER . He is supposed 
to have known OSWALD in New Orleans . He i s 
presently living in Kansas City and Reid is 
attempting to get his address for us. 










33) RICHARD KSRNO LEAD ; (See Reid nemo) 


Ml 


KARNO was connected with the Modern Language 
Institute through his friendship with ARN££JIQ, 
R ODRIGUEZ and ROGER LOVIN. He supposedly met 
C'g w'ALD at the Napoleon Street Branch Libra ry 
and was seen w ith him at the Rvd^r Onffe e 
HQjxse . (Reid can locate.) 


34) DAVE GRAYDON LEAD: (See prior GRAYDON memo) 


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^ We have already talked to GRAYDON in regard 
to WILL BRADY who used to be his roommate, 
however, we have not talked to him in regard 
to EDDIE PORTER whom he knows from the Penny 
Arcade on Royal Street. He says that PORTER 
knew BRADY and some other people from around 
the Ryder Coffee House. He might possibly 
know PORTER'S friend JOHN, from the Arcade, 
v/ho was a friend of OSWALD'S. He is presently 
living at 1408 Pauger Street, New Orleans. 


35) GOLDEN LANTERN LEAD: 




(See KIMBLE memo of 10/10/67 and SOULE memo 
of 4/8/69) 


<m. 

C kvi s 




U£ 


supposedly was introduced to SHAW , 
by F ERR IE in late 1960 or early 1961 in the 
~Golden Lantern Bar at 1239 Royal Street (which 

_The owner of the bar at that 
Perhaps he ca n 


was a gay bar) . 
time was Joseph A. COLON . 


.. ho1 P 11 H ^ n th-jg m at-ta x , or k n ow wa m pnnp w|-in_ 
can. 


36) COURT OF TWO SISTERS ' LEAD ; 

(See COURT OF WO SISTERS file) 







We have received information from numerous 
sources that LEE HARVEST ISWALD was in the 
C ourt of Two Sisters^' One of the waiters 

-.CsjjT ~F RENCP TeTjeQI .V fiP. . Jng>wv^) i rl nrvt-i fio» -m o" 
pir-hnre of T HORNTR.V as a w a ii 


a fter w h o-u& arL to 




JHQRN) 

work at th^rn/ rfy. t However, Tnu ^S adds.. 

^W hen he worked at the Cou rt his hair was nnt 
.1 ike thief- ^ I suggest we talk to the following 
employees : 


JOSE PEPE MAYORAL 
JORGE MAYORAL 
HAROLD SANDOZ 
RUBEN MORALES 

HENRY AVERY (who dislikes Thornley) 
LOUIS CASTILLO (who may be related 
to CARLOS CASTILLO whom THORNLEY 
worked for) 





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Reid and I have been talking to MARGARET 
TANNENBAUM and MARY MACIAS attempting to 
acquire certain records and photos, and we 
will continue to do this. 


37) M RS. GLADYS ROGERS LEAD : (See FBI interview of 11/25/63) 


A 


vf 


MR. & MRS. ROGERS lived at 4907 Magazine Street. 
Her husband testified before the Commission, but 
not her. She said that several days before 
OSWALD moved, she observed an individual talking 
to her husband who asked for the location of the 
OSWALDS. She describes this person as a white 
male, approximately 5’ 7", 175 pounds, dark 
complexion, and had a foreign appearance, possibly 
Spanish. She also recalls seeing a young couple 
in their early 20' s stopping in to see the 
OSWALDS. She also recalls seeing a female who 
wore a white coat and whom she thinks was a 
Welfare worker, call at the OSWALD apartment. 


38) BRIAN AMPOLSjf^LEAD : (See FBI interview of 11/29/63) 



loai 


on 

minute conve 
conversing wx 
as one or tw 
leaflets, but 
no attention 


looked 


U 




two 


£rMROLEJ5s 1418 Haring 
L3y£ HARVEY\OSWALD one /or 
i) was \arrested for /landing 
CJbnal St^et. \He and OSWALD 
■ -^-ation*!!— c^Q^politic 
h OSWA 
other 


jOUisdTana, 


awar 
so h 


cconding to the repor 
them and does not rec 


leaflets 
: "about /a fcxve 
t While be was 
that/ thereS 
ding out 
e paid 
1 what 


39) DOROTHY RIEGEL or RAGAN LEAD: (See Reid memo) 


<( 




^ REIGEL or RAGAN allegedly was a hustler who 
knew OSWALD and gave him money during the 
summer of 1963. 


40) LAKEFRONT AIRPORT MECHANIC LEAD : 


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it, 




went before Judge Babylon. 



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Portland* New York 14769 


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Washington* D . C. 20003 
(202)653-5147 



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Division S tr e et 
Sag Harbor 

Long Island, New York 
(5 16 ) 7 25-30 — 


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756 Grant Avenue 
Dunkirk, New York 14048 


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TAS Soufh Figueroa Street 

Los Angeles, California 90017 


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Queens University 
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On ta ri o , Canada 


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~~3416 Portfer S tre et , N . W 7? 
Washington ,m D. C + _20 016 

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Hotre Dame University 
Notre Dame University 
Iraw^ School 
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 


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7411 S.E. Knight 
Portland, Oregon 97206 


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1908 Fillmore 

Norman, Oklahoma 73069 


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P .0. Box 10017 
Portland, Maine 04101 


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548 S . Diamond S t. 
Mansfield, Ohio 44903 


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30 08 Dewey St. 

Tampa, Florida 33607 




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Bel I n 


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1201 N. Kensington St. 
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7 Plymouth Ave. 

Deimar, New York 12054 


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3 35 3 Co t ta ge Way 
Suite 100 

Sacramento, California 95825 
( 916 ) 489-3700 

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Box 475 

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Sag Harbor 

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City College 

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Dear Hr. liar tin, 


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‘ Following is the promised memorandum on a few Canadian leads 
in your case against Clay Shaw. 

The affidavit from the Winnipeg nan who overheard the conversation 
at the airport is- being nade this wo eh and uiV reach you later. 


Hr • llalcoln C anpb ell, of 109 9 Hast lawn , $ ? mi a , Ontario, who wro t e 
your office about an eyewitness to the Dallas shooting, cannot provide 
any sore information on the subject. The eyewitness , Liberty magazine 
editor "orman sir alas , is unavailable. Liberty magazine was published 
by Consolidated Press until 196*1 './hen it ,/as sold to another company 
and folded after a few issues, v/hen it wound up its operations, fir.” 
Sirr.ilas was writing a serial o« his experiences in Dallas and in the 
last issue Hr. Sinilas said the next issue, which *>ever appeared, would 
carry a picture tal:en of shots being fired at Kennedy. I made sons 
enquiries regarding the sudden collapse of the publication, but people 
in the business seen to be convinced that it was genuine financial trouble 
“They went broke,'* as one spokesman put it. Ltr. Sinilas c&n't be located 
at the moment. K relative, Helen Sinllas of Toronto (probably an estranged 
wife or a read sister) doesn't want to talk about hin at all and becomes 
irritated when someone mentions his nano. The people he formerly worked 
with have lost track of hin. His name has boon mentioned, however, by 
Ramparts magazine and other critics of the Uarren report as one of a 
•list of witnesses never interviewed by the Jarren commission. Ramparts 
misspelled his name quite badly. 


Hr. 


Keith A?‘ 


Ion, ’^0, a Seattle accountant whose mother lives at llSy 
Hat thews Avenue. Vancouver, British Columbia (the address listed in 

notebook; is a service buddy of your nan. He’s single and probably 


Shaw* 

queer, 


but the last time he's seen* Shaw was 20 years ago. They've been 


exchanging Chris tnaj 
3ay, 


cards sinctf; Hr'; Allen has ’■'ever heard of Kootenay 


Kootenay Bay, B.C. June-Sent encer (IS 63) seems a very mysterious 
notation. The place is in the interior mountainous country of B.C. on 
the shore o* a lake. A ferry runs across the lake to Kootenay say and 
one can also reach the place from the south, from the U.S. by narrow, 
winding mountain road. There is one motel i>~ the tow~> , the Llary Ann motel, 
but it doesn't seen to have a telephone. There are also carp grounds end 
cabins and the whole prea is a prime tourist region in the summer, ssp:cia 
from Ju-e to September. 


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Ur, Larry ReJ&virs, 25? of the Gt. i James To%/n apartment's in downtown 
Toronto (his sunt and u^cle live at U 3 Jarlock Crescent , .iillowlale, Cnt. 
which -./as the address listed in Shaw’s notebook) also ge*ms queer. 

He doesn't have a job, hut. is in the position tc travel extensively , 
throw "big parties and generally live it up. Has made several trips to 
London, England, where he churned around with Shaw and a group of 
decadent Englishmen which included the former manager of Christir,- 
Keeler. He first met Shaw shortly before the Kennedy assassination, 
but he doesn't want to say where. In larch of this year he went to 
Dallas "to visit friends” and in April to Hew Orleans for the sar 9 reason. 
He intended tc loch 3hav up .hrr-r ho - as there, but later decided not to. 

He last saw him ’in London in 1>66. He .maw Shaw as a very bright person, 
who loved London, the theatre and big parties. He calls Shaw a "masochist." 
Rogers doesn't third: Shaw h i anything to lo /ith an assassination *a 
id of the president of the United States, because Shaw didn't care about 
politics and "dldnift £ivc a darn about the '..hole United States." 

He says he feels "hr 'ly li hr Shaw because Shaw is a "fun- loving fellow 
who likes a great time, likes to drink and likes to spend money." 

m 

This is the infer; .at ion I have gathered so far. If anything sounds 
interesting I can pursue these things further, of course. It would 
probably be easier for me as a Canadian newspaperman, than for you as 
a Hew Orleans prosecutor. I have not yet written any story on the 
things discussed above "or the newspaper, but I hope you will keep in 
mind that I a:.: always interested in a story '/hen something develops. 

I'll play ball with you any %/ay you like , whatever confidential information 
you havs that you don't %/ant published but that might help me in tying up 
loose ends wil? be safe with me, 

I night add that I am professionally as Veil as personally interested 
in helping your investigation any %/ay I can. ./hat you are doing in How 
Orleans takes a groat deal of courage. It is probably the most difficult 
job a district attorney has ever undertaken in this century but it has to 
, be done ±a for history’s Ice* I sincerely hope you succeed. 

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Always at you service, 



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Pieter VanBennekon 
c/o Free Press, 
Editorial Dept . , 
Winnipeg, Manitoba 
Canada 

tel. 20 Uajh393 1 +5 




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MEMORANDUM 


February 20, 1968 


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TO: * - JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

FROM: LYNN LOISEL, Investigator 

RE: -MARTIN MC AULIFFE 


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On Tuesday, February 13, 1968, MARTIN MC AULIFFE came 
into the District Attorney's Office and was interviewed by Loisel 
and Bethel!. L . t 

MR. MC AULIFFE was asked if he knew KERRY THORNLEY, and 
how well did he know him. MC AULIFFE said th^t-he had seen 
KERR Y TH ORNLEY at ther5oufbon~ House, .on., two occal siopJb some time 

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MC AULIFFE said that on both occasions he was ^cither 

^ fe of his students from L.S.U.N.O. whose name is SIOVCE/ 

CALLER, or he could have been with his ^^rpi-ary , ^a.urr^rr> 

■IC_jtIILIFFE said that he was (Introduced on both occasiond5~ Eo ’ 
$’H0RNLEY~>)V either of t-he> women hp was with at which time THORNLEY 


had reque st ed Mr aur.TFKF- . In rand appl e s oE manuscripts of books 
he was writing. MC AULIFFE said that one man uscri pt was abou t 
~a marTon UU^Exf duty ~T d Japan, nnrL..he jwag TonVjpg a +- hig 
~Xh tlie~~pur ?d1 . Mr AUL IF FE sa i d that after he re,-iF L j- . h - t e ; 
some bther trash that THORNLEY had, he brushed him off and tried 


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~to avo~id Kim. M C AULIFFE also said that actually THORNLEY had 
short stories which contained mostly sketches. Loisel showed 
several pictures of THORNLEY to MC AULIFFE, but MC AULIFFE said 
he could not recognize THORNLEY. MC AULIFFE said that all he 
remembers about THORNLEY is that he was real skinny. MC AULIFFE 
was asked if he had ever had any political discussions with 
THORNLEY in regard to OSWALD. MC AULIFFE said THORNLEY had ask^d 
him if he knew OSWALD or had come in contact- wHh him-.'ha-aiiea 


rnexr twoopposing groups, and MC AULIFFE said that he did nnh 


know OSWALD. 


MC AULIFFE was then asked if he knew CARLOS BRINGUIER 
and was shown a picture of BRINGUIER. MC AULIFFE said that he 
did not recognize BRINGUIER but might of heard of him on tele- 
vision or in the newspapers. MC AULIFFE was then asked if he had 
ever -been to BRINGUIER ' s clothing store in the 100 block of 
Decatur street. MC AULIFFE replied that he hadn't but had been 
to a barroom in the 100 block to collect money for the Cuban 
organization but doesn't remember of seeing BRINGUIER at that 
time. 

MC AULIFFE then told Loisel that the District Attorney's 
Office should get a JL3£2-CQPY-nf-Ji^ S..U. N.O s “newspaper , "The 
Bea c he °rnb£rY,^whieh— corrhairns— c 1 o fc .tmt- TLinRNT|F.v _jra^ written 


MC AULIFFE said that his address is 2117 Riviere Avenue! 
Metairie, Louisiana, telephone 833-3443 or 888-4704. 


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NEW ORLEANS D.A. CHARGES CONSPIRACY 


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By Robert L. Allen 

COMPLICATED skein of events 
” involved in the assassination of Presi- 
dent John F Kennedy became even more 
tanked ajih the arrest March 1 of Clay 
L. Sh- a . described in the press as % *a 
prominent New Orleans businessman.” 




ised on JFK killing 


New Orleans District Attorney Jim 
Garrison, who made the arrest, contended 
in i search warrant that at secret meet- 
ings in September, 1963. “there was an 
agreement and combination among Clay 
Shaw ( alias Clay Bertrand), Lee Har- 
vey Oswald and David W. Ferrle and 
others to kilt John P. Kennedy.” 

AT GUARDIAN press time a prelim- 
inary hearing concerning this contention 
* is in progress. lF\Ft 

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The name “Clay Bertrand” figures in 
the report of the Warren Commission s 
1944 investigation. Dean Andrews, a 
lawyer In the New Orleans area, testified 
that Oswald and several homosexuals, 
whom he described as “Mexlcanos,” were 
sent to his law office in the summer of 
I>v3 by a person named '‘Clay Bertrand.” 
Andrews said that Oswald wanted help 
in tatting his dishonorable discharge from • 
the Marines changed to an honora him 
discharge. 

Andrews told the Commission that on 
Nov. 23, 1963, “Bertrand” called him aod 
asked him to go to Dallas to defend 
Oswald. Andrews said he was hospltal- 
kmd and under sedation at the rime. He 
he called another New Orleans at- 
torney, Monk Zelden, since he was un- 
mfcle to go to Dallas himself. 

THE FBI COULD KIND no record of 



Shaw said at a prtsa conference March 
2 That he had played no part in an 

alleged conspiracy and he denied that 
he had ever met with or known Oswald 
oi Ftrrie. He said that he had never 
used the name ' Clay Bertrand.” 

Ferrie. a former airlines pilot and 
alleged homosexual, was found dead In 
his bed Feb. 23. Garrison called the 
death a suicide; a coroner attributed It 
to natural causes. \] \J \J \Z r 

THE GUARDIAN HAS received reports 
from Rome linking Shaw with various 
right-wing organizations and individuals, 
and possibly with the CIA. The GUARD- 
IAN’S Rome correspondent. Phyllis Roa- 
ner. Quoting the Rome daily Paesa Sar- 
ra. reported that from 1961 till 19#S 
wa# on the board of directors o# 

the Centro Mondiale Commerclale, which 
the paper said was enlaced in obscure 
! dealings in Rome. 

j Vtmii* the directors on the CMC board. 

I a»td Paesa Serra. were several Swiss 
b businessmen and bankers, the ex-Hun- 
' garinn Peasant Party leader Ferenc Nagy, 
now living in the U S ; Prince Guitere 
*jde .Spadaforo. large Julian landowner 
tnd industrialist who Is related by mar- 
riage to Hitler’s '’financial wizard” Hjal- 
1 mar Schacht: and Dr. Enrico Mantello, 
who represented himself and six other 
shareholders, the most important being 
former^ JUS. A r-nv M.i lnr L \1. Bloom - 

ruxw r^^irLfrdlv A fryn ker in MotT" point he reportedly 

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I j Bloomfield Is reported to have served 


nay's fee, he said. •'Bertrand” would. 

* Andrews aald he ''didn’t know** whether 
“Bertrand” and Shaw were the same 
man. The New York Post quoted him 
March 2 as saying he “couldn’t say for 
sure.” 

The same day Acting Attorney Gen- 
eral Ramsey Clark said that, on the basis 
of an investigation in November -Decem- 
ber 1963, by the FBI, “no connection” 
was established between Shaw and the 
Kennedy assassination. The Clark state- 
ment makes it clear that Sha/w was the 
subject of an inquiry; yet Shaw’s name 
in not mentioned once in the 29 volumes 
of the Warren Commission Report nor 
in other documents in the National 
Archives related to the assassination. 
There is testimony only concerning ''Clay 
Bertrand.” " - 

Oswald 1 * visit to Andrews or locate the ' , _ . , ... , 

person who allegedly called Andrews, al- /A JusUce Department official told r*. 

though it did confirm that Andrews and 
Zelden had talked about representing 
Oswald. 


porters that his agency was convinced 
that “Bertrand” and Shaw were one and 
the same, and that this was the basis 
for Clark’s statement. 


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Cl AY SHAW 

Businessman arrested 

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Andrews was said to have given coA- 
• fllcting descriptions of “Bertrand” to the 
FBI and the Commission, and at one 
told the FBI that 
Bertrand was a “figment of imagina- 
tion.” 


the OW (which w*n the prsdeoe— or j 

w !/bf the CL\> during World War n French ,J 
fj newspapers have charged, the Rome daily ] 
y .said, that- ’.vis a generous contributor ^ 
* : .\ $ o ueu-faacJat groups in France. Italy ! 
th; iuhout Europe 

JrVn-'i Sorra said It is believed that the i 
^et up by the CIA as a cover \ 
"fj; chaiutehn* funds into Italy. -*=r 


. \ ALSO KEPORTfcD 

ftvuAPl from a soun-e in New 


to the* L 

few Or-ff 

^ >u, ^<^'^TVns instrumental in ar-*j 
f. j •--*'** ' xifh Batista's. Cuba f] 

S ^»>r • 1 3 ye.vv until !96. r , he 

aN^director of tbe Inter- 
1 Tracib .Mart in New . Orleans 

.'-un ofgahirntip which was reported ra- 
^ cently to :ha (e arranged for the first 
» visit e/v a tfade delegation from U S. 

J Southern st/tes U >\ South ^ 

Shaw r^po/tediy^pfalyed a'parT'in ar- 
./anjslniy’ for/ Kennedy to spenk at the 
&*'.'a$\Tryte Mart on Nov. 22. 1943 — 
-he darV Uie assassination— a fact 
*h«ch to y degree determined the fatal 
motorcade route from the Dallas airport. 


According to Mark Lane in Rush to 
(Judgment, Andrews said he was so hound- 
ed by FBI agents — ‘'like the plague’’ — * 
that he told them “to write whatever 
they wanted in their report and to close 
their file on him. The agents evidently 
closed the file by writing that Andrewi . 
acknowledged that Bortmnd did not 
exist, despite the fact that Andrew* 
*wore that he had never made such a 
statement.” 

Andrews also said he saw “Bertrand” 

>nly twice and that “Bertrand” was-- 
^mostly a voice on the phone.” 

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* Shaw, in the March 2 news conference, 
•said" that* he knew of Andrews but was 
not personally acquainted with him. 

ANDREWS WAS QUESTIONFJD by 
Garrison March 2. Afterward, Andrews 
told reporters he had talked with •’Ber- 
trand” by telephone 10 or 12 times In a 
year. He said “Bertrand” sent boys to 
him for legal representation. If the de- 
fendants were unable to pay the attor- 


jANOTHF.R /ASPECT of the New Orleans 
Investigation involves Cuban exiles. 3ev- 
trml exiles in Miami and one who was 
. a prisoner in a Louisiana state prison 
apparently have been Questioned by Oar- 
riaon’s investigators, 

A source in Garrison's office told tiio 
New York Post March. 3 that lnvesti**- 
Uorws had been made at two sites in the 
New Orleans area which reportedly had 
been used by the CIA to train Cuban 
exiles for the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1941. 

It was also reported that Oswald had 
been arrested with three Cubans in the 
summer of 1963 while distributing “Pair 
Play for Cuba Committee” literature. He 
told police and the FBI that he was a 
member of the New Orleans branch of 
Fair Play, which had 35 members. No 
such branch, however, had been char- 
tered by the National Fair Play — and he 
apparently was the only “member.” 

STRANGELY ENOUGH, Oswald— or a 
person looking very much like Oswald — 
also reportedly met with anti-Castro 
Cubans In the summer and fall of 1963. 
This brings into play the “two Oswalds” 
theory advanced by Harold Weisberg in 
Whitewash. This theory holds that the 
alleged conspiracy to kill Kennedy used 
a false Oswald and placed him in com- 
promising situations In order to Impli- 
cate the real Oswald as the lone assassin. 

The allegations listed In Gurnson’s 
search warrant were based on statements 
obtained from a “confidential Informant” 
who was said to have taken part In the | 
secret meetings with Shaw In Svptem- | 
bet. 1963. The reliability of * this infer- j 
man t was reportedly checked by unrig ] 
•odium pentothal. a so-culled “tmt 
k serum.” It was expected that the iilen-| 

1 tlty of this Informant wouict be revealed! 


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March 

14, 1968 

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TO: 

JIM GARRISON, 

FROM: 

ANDY SCIAMBRA 
r~—~~ - 

RE: 

iCERRY THORNLE" 


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On the jiight of— MHldh fF2 , 1968, Harold Weisburg and 
I interviewed r felNARD GOLDSMITH^ ^GOLDSMITH repeated essentially 
what he had pr evil^cr^iy^-^ Sanders, however, upon further 

prodding by Weisburg and myself he made a few additional 
comments concerning THORNLEY. He repeated that mnQUNrjp^ y/ns 
a riqhl-wincrer__.. and.-sa-nef^Ln.Jii£i-DQliti fia-'Lb e.l ief s that he. 

G OLDS MI T f 1 , and TH ORN LEY made an agreement not to tal k po liti cs . 
He says he can never remember THORNLEY mentioning BRINGUIER 
or KENT COURTNEY's name. He said that THORNLEY and LOVIN were 

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told ..W.t 1 - n' i n ..m f 'rhfti i 


belpg T1 orr 

-TI ^ ema rkl n g t^him 
that he had , knQwn.Ofi^.p , ffigt Oswald _ had ^i ve ^cm,, E>x; icmqe - 
Place. TgORNLEY als o ^ told him that OSWALD was not a communis t7 
t'H sarcT that""^ ^THORNLEY did not speenyafra — tne”trTrae^v7hcm 
he had known OSWALD but only stated that he had known OSWALD. 
GOLDSMITH does not recall him ever saying specifically that he 
knew* OSWALD when OSWALD was in New Orleans. 


GOLDSMITH also says that he vaguely rememb ers ROGER 

LOVIN, was a roommate of OSWALD a if 

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LOVIN_t oiling him that he, 

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o ne time and GOLDSMITH said that h e seems to remember " LOylTSP" 
saying* this in connection with a c^mTer^aTi on about. LOV IN 'IT 
Cuban activities.^ " ' " " .t 

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GOLDSMITH also.. L-a JL<lJJia_L -E I'TER SOSlruid^ £lM SoST) 

w or r- f r i 1 s - SOHR is presently serving time*” 

at Angola. 

Barbara and I will make further attempts to talk to 
GOLDSMITH who may know some additional information. 




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MEMORANDUM 


March 14, 1968 




TO: 

FROM: 

RE: 


JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

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ANDY SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney 

' >v \ 

CRRY THORNLEY 



On the_jnight .of--MaTUtr~l>2, 1968, Harold Weisburg and 
I interviewed {^SERNARD GOLDSMITEL>GOLDSMITH repeated essentially 
what he had pr evaT0rnT*4^u-^^ Sanders, however, upon further 

prodding by Weisburg and myself he made a few additional 
comments concerning THORNLEY. He repeat ed that .THQRN LEY was ^ 
a riaht-winaer and sti «et i n-his_--politlc.a.l-be1 i of s that he. 




GOLD SMITH, and THORNLEY made an agreement not to talk Politics . 

He says he can never remember THORNLEY mentioning BRINGUIER 
or KENT COURTNEY'S name. He...said that THORNLEY. and LOVIN were 
_Xx j-ends— CLQ.VI^N told him that:, hr; v/na. .in. ’l . 

GOLDSMITO s a i <L t S being in , the_Bourbon || ^ Tou | .-g on 
'•hkp~nu|h (- ,*and , THORNLEY remarking to hi m 

t hat he ha d l^owiL„QSim^..:in -.tl|at ( OSWALD had | liyeA.QD.Exchancre^ 
Place . THORN LEY also told h:i^ Lhat OSWALD was not a communi st . 
'tranDSkr'MT s"aTcr^that^mORNLEY did not speciiy aiTTO^irc — trlmie^when 
he had known OSWALD but only stated that he had known OSWALD. 
GOLDSMITH does not recall him ever saying specifically that he 
knew OSWALD when OSWALD was in New Orleans. 

GOLDSMITH also says that he vaguely remembe rs ROGER 
LOVIN telling him that he, ~LOVTN, wasT roommat_e~~of OSW ALD ab~ 
one time and GOLDSMITH said that he seems to remember LOVTSf 


'sa ving this in connection with a conversation about L OVIN' s 
Cuban activities. 


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GOLDSMITH also s aid. Lhat 1 
w ar o f[ r L a 1 i d & -oL^jp£QldHLIY. 1 s . SOHR is presently serving time 
at Angola. 

Barbara and I will make further attempts to talk to 
GOLDSMITH who may know some additional information. 


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JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

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ANDY SCIAMBRA, Assistant District Attorney 

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On the_jiight jof- Mar i?h~3>2 , 1968, Harold Weisburg and 
I interviewed ^ERNARD GOLDSMITtb^GOLDSMITH repeated essentially 
vfhat he had pr evaT&rre-l^^^ Sanders, however, upon further 

prodding by Weisburg and myself he made a few additional 
comments concerning THORNLEY. lie rep eated that — THO RNI .E Y v/ a s 
a right-winger and. -so., set -i n ..hia. nnl itlc.aJ_bel±£r£s that he. 


GOLDSMIT H , and THORNLEY made an agreement not to. talk, politics . 
He says he can never remember THORNLEY mentioning BRINGUIER 
or KENT COURTNEY's name. He_ said that THOR NT ,T-:V and L O VIN wer e 
_ £xicaa.r^(OQ_VIN I old In' in t.iuH. hq was,- in- tha-B. 

GOLDSMITH sai d. being in the.RQurbQn^Hc xuab on * 

t In; I! i fflH, pfVbE ^ anfl THORNLEY remarking t o _ him 

that he h a^^ | ^^’/CL^Q^7AIJ>"i~n )| -tUia t. r .OSWALD had llved_p ji : %c^ 
place! THORN LEY also told him that OSWALD was’not a communist. 
-gut , sstor "sa icl^lTh a t'^THORNLEY did no t s p^cTTy al~Ytr~ttTc — CllTrSwTren' 
he had known OSWALD but only stated that he had known OSWALD. 
GOLDSMITH does not recall him ever saying specifically that he 
knew OSWALD when OSWALD was in New Orleans. 


GOLDSMITH also says that he vaguel y remem bers ROGER 

was a roommate of OSWALD - ' "at 


LOVIN telling him that he. 


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w f r i ” r f1 ^- flrjn: ‘ l mt.t;; v 1 c SOHR is presently serving time 
at Angola. 

Barbara and I will make further attempts to talk to 
GOLDSMITH who may know some additional information. 


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On the_jaight of'-Mat c h ^2# 1968, Harold Wei-sburg and 
I interviewed ^ERNARD GOLDSMITIt^GOLDSMITH repeated essentially 
what he had pr evitras-iy^ Sanders, however, upon further 

prodding by Weisburg and myself he made a few additional 
comments concerning THORNLEY. Re repeated t h ,^i t- thop kft.fv was 
a right-winger and sH: .in hifi. r>n1 i t_l cal, Del i pf ^ that he, ^ 

GOLDS MITH, and THORNLEY made an agreement not to. talk Politics . 


He says he can never remember THORNLEY mentioning BRINGUIER 
or KENT COURTNEY’S name. He said that THORNLEY , and LOVIN were 
fr iends. (.I, PVT H told., hi^ that he 

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that he h ad ^^^-OSWALD... -in... tiigt r . OSWALD _ ha ct_ _ piiJSxQ5anqe^~ 

place” THORNLEY also told him that OSWALD was " 'n ot a coimmunistT 
l^nD^TTI’fl s a 1 cl'" that THORNLEY did not speciiTy ’’’a's TD ttrcr^rfHve’ when 
he had known OSWALD but only stated that he had known OSWALD. 
GOLDSMITH does not recall him ever saying specifically that he 
knew- OSWALD when OSWALD was in New Orleans . 


GOLDSMITH also says that he vaguely remem bers ROGER 
LOV IN tellin g him that he, LOVIH^ was a roommate o f "^OSWALD at 


one time and GOLDSMITH s a id that he seems t o r em emb e r L O ; v¥Ft~ 
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Barbara and I will make further attempts to talk to 
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I was out at the New Orleans Airport on a Saturday or a Sunday 
afternoon sometime during the summer of 1964. I had brought 
my boy out there to take some flying lessons from Dave Ferrie. 
After I parked my car I noticed Dave Ferrie and Clay Shaw coming 
out of the hangar. Dave Ferrie was about three feet ahead of 
Clay Shaw. Clay Shaw turned to go to his car and Dave Ferrie 
was coming towards me. When Shaw turned Dave waved at him. 

Shaw just got into his automobile and left. I asked Dave Ferrie 
if this was a new student that he had because I knew of Clay 
Shaw and he said, — No, it was a personal friend and the Manager 
of the International Trade Mart, and that was the end of that. 
However, I did call it to the attention of my wife when I saw 
Clay Shaw and told my wife who he was at the time. I had seen 
Clay Shaw several times before around the French Quarter and know 
positively that this was him. 



Nicholas Tadin 


Office of the District Attorney 
February 27, 1969 


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STATEMENT OF MRS. MATHILDA TAD IN 


My husband and I had gone out to the New Orleans Airport one 
afternoon sometime in the summer of 1964. While waiting to see 
Dave Ferrie, we saw him come out of the hangar with another 
person. My husband turned to me and said "Look who's with Dave" 
and I said "who's that"? My husband told me that the man was 
Clay Shaw, a notorious degenerate. 



Mathilda Tadin 


Office of the District Attorney 
February 27, 1969 


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JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 
ANDREW J. SC IAMB RA, Assistant D. A. 


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RE: CLAY SHAW 

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During my recent interview with MR. JAMES J. PLAINE 
of Houston, Texas, MR. PLAINE informed me that he had been 
cont acted ^.rv a MR. WHITE of Freeport Sulphur in rega rds to a 
;i natTnn^olan for Fidel Castro. 



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MR. PLAINE said that MR. WHITE was only one of the 
many oil and import people that he had occasion to talk to 
from New Orleans regarding Castro. 

MR. PLAINE also informed me that he thought that t h e 
picture of CLA Y SHAW was v ery familiar, and that he may have 
met him in ~Houston, either at his apartment or at the Norman dy 
Cl ub which the oil people of Texas frequen t . 

A memo in the GUY BANISTER file indicates that the^e 
is information which reports that DICK WHITE, a high offi cial 
o f Freeport Sulphur, and CLAY SHAW were flown to Cuba probab ly 
t aking off from the Harvey Canal area in a Freeport Sulph ur 
p lane piloted by DAVE FERR IE. The purpose of this trip was 
to set up import of Cuba's nickle ore to ^ Canadian' frbrt-t^ 

< cbr pora t dcm, which would in turn shipt to the Braithwaite nicpkle 
plant. The plant was built by the U. S. Government at a cost 
of about one million dollars. 

( The report is that the combine of Freeport Sulphur, 
WHITE, and SHAW purchased the plant for a mi llion do llars and 
intended to get ore through ^ TCanadian corporati on theyhad^ 
<£pcif&d. There is also a report that GUY BANISTsk hired FkRRIE 
and JACK MARTIN as investigators to check out the nickl e plant 
deal . 


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October 23, 19*68 


TO = JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

FROM: Andrew j. sciambra. Assistant d. a. 

RE= SHAW - FERRIE & WHITE (Freeport Sulphur) 

to MR. WHITE of Freeoort Sulphur 1 ^-^™ telephone in -regard 
t_old ma . that he ^distln^tly remembers -M B*. 

Jl es t^EJ^z Io. TsuST . He~sa^~b^ ~ d o ^ / 

the gist of the conversation, but h- distinct eXaCtly 
that it was regarding these nickel mines h“s JTT** 1 * 
positively say that FERRIE knew WHITE d h * cannot 

somehow feels that they must have' know? e^otS?' bUt 

Sulphur and ask him about our^revious ° £ Freeport 

KIKBAbL which mentions SHAW, FERRIE and^WHlS^eing^ogether 


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‘J 5 1 E LL J SCHON EKAS 
JIM r.AflRlSON 


TUCKER, SCHONEKAS & GARRISON 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 
710 CARONOELET STREET 
NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70130 


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505 - 901-3 

November 8, 1977 


Mr. Jonathan Blackmer 

Select Committee on Assassinations 

House of Representatives, Annex 2, Room 335 

Washington, D. C. 20515 


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RE : Ind ividuals s ubpoenaed to the 

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Following is a list of persons I recall as having testified before 
the Grand Jury in connection with our inquiry into the assassination 
of President Kennedy. The year involved, according to my recollection, 
would have been 1967 in some instances and 1958 in others. As I ad- 
vised you by phone. Grand Jury testimony here is automatically typed 
afterwards so that the complete transcript should readily be avail- 
able to you. 


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Thomas Beckham 
Lawrence Howard 
F. Lee Crisman 
Marina Oswald 


Kerry Thorn ley 
Loren Hall 
Layton Martens* 
Carlos Quiroya 
Ruth Paine 


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There may have been others and I will have to talk to former members 
of my staff to clarify this, however these were the witnesses whom 
I clearly recall as having testified. The specific records of pre- 
cisely who testified and when (as well as the transcripts of their 
testimony) would be in the custody of the present District Attorney 
of Orleans Parish: Harry F. Connick, 2700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, 

La . 


Dean Andrews, who clearly lied during his Grand Jury testimony, was 
subsequently charged with perjury (essentially, as I recall the 
charge) with regard to his testimony that Clay Shaw was not the "Clay 
Bertrand" who contacted him about representing Lee Harvey Oswald. He 
was subsequently found guilty at a jury trial, although I don't re- 
call ever seeing this minor footnote to history ever noted in the 
national press. 




November 8 # 1977 


Mr. Jonathan Blackmer 
Page two . 


Thomas Beckham patently was lying all the v;ay down the line — which 
caused me to question him rather intensely for about four hours — 
but I couldn't break through his cool. Nor was there enough ex- 
terior objective evidence, as there had been in the case of Dean 
Andrews, for us to charge him with perjury. Crisman, similarly, 
was super-cool and seemed to me totally unconcerned about any 
possible problems forthcoming to him from a county level grand 
jury. Although his testimony, as I recall it, was quite implausible, 
he held his ground with confide nee. A rather professional witness, 
according to my recollection, for an itinerant, wandering minister 
of a non-existant church. 

Layten Martens' perjury (while I do not recall the details) was 
arrogant and, I felt, demonstrable with regard. .to a possible sub- 
sequent perjury charge. After all, we had connected him in too 
many ways, not only with Clay Shaw, but with David Ferrie and Sergio 
Arcacha — with most of the main characters of the cast. Had he 
testified truthfully to any degree at all, he could have been, I 
felt, a highly illuminating witness concerning the clandestine game 
which was played out down here. However, he stonewalled it, wouldn't 
give an inch — even where he had to know that we know better — and 
ended up, like Andrews, being charged with perjury. By the time his 
trial would have come up, however, Shaw had been acquitted and the 
press — both local as well as national - — was now in high gear 
pounding away at our investigation, by this time being widely charac- 
terized as "f raudulent" . So, somewhere about that time, I shrugged 
my shoulders and said "to hell with it" and ordered the case dismissed 
I expect that this occurred around 1969 or 1970 by which time we were 
all pretty exhausted and tired of the endless discredits tion and the 
steady counterprdssure against our office. 

The next time I find myself at a scene where aspects of' an assassina- 
tion were worked out, I will know better than to be drawn into any 
first hand investigation of it. Instead, I will be a critic emeritus 
making pronouncements, and evolving theories, only on what I have read 
The trouble with getting involved in actual primary inquiry at the 
scene, as we happened to, is that having made the mistake of stumbling 
into what did happen (instead of following the wiser course of merely 
making observations as to what did not happen) — you become more of 
a potential threat to the force which activated the catastrophe and 
to those myriad interests which have ratified it or which, at least, 
are careful not to engage such a demonstrably powerful force. Getting 
drawn into primary investigation of the ultimate game of dirty tricks 
fi?* that you not only lose any possible credentials as a philosopher 
(having wandered too far from the books tacks) but you end up for some 
years having what the English used to call "slops” dumped on you at 
regular intervals. 


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Page three. 


November 8, 1977 


Excuse the Maileresque outburst. On with the Grand Jury observations 

As to the other witnesses who testified, their transcripts for the 
most part will speak for themselves . if you want my recollection 
and evaluation as to any of them, let me know. 

It occurs to me, in passing, that Norman Bundy may have testified. 

In any case, you should see if there is a Grand Jury transcript for 
him. In any case, it would be worth 'the effort to attempt to obtain, 
as well, the transcript of his testimony at the trial (or, if that 
is not available, of his testimony at the Preliminary Hearing held 
before the trial). Bundy is an important witness because of his 
acute, although brief, observation of an o the rwise murky area: the 

precise relationship of Clay Shaw to Lee Harvey Oswald. 

And, of course. Perry Russo testified before the Grand Jury. I will 
contact Jim Alcock, the executive assistant D.A. who handled many of 
these witnesses, and see if I have overlooked any. If so, will send 
you a follow-up note. Certain principals, with regard to our inquiry 
namely Guy Banister and David Ferrie — did not live long enough to 
make it to the Grand Jury. 

Since writing the foregoing, I have come across a January 19, 1967 
memorandum to my staff describing certain witnesses as having turned 
out to be uncooperative to ordinary investigative inquiry and indi- 
cating that they should be subpoenaed to the Grand Jury. While I 
do not independently recall their appearances, I think the best 
course for you is to assume that they did appear and also request 
transcripts of this testimony. Their names are: Edward Gerstner, 

Anna Burglass, Eric Michael Krouchet and Sam Newman. 

So much for those who apparently did appear and testify — which is 
what you requested. As for those who refused to appear, or appeared 
but refused to testify, I will add that in an addendum to this letter 
While that list goes beyond what you requested, in some instances the 
circumstances of their avoidance of testimony may be of value to you 
in appraising the general scenario of this sector of your inquiry. 


JG : JBS 

cc: cliff Fenton 



Mr. Jonathan Blackmer 
Page four 


November 0 , 1977 


ADDENDUM 


Individuals refusing to testify before the 
Orleans Parish Grand Jury with regard to 
the Kennedy investigation . 

SERGIO ARCACHA , was located by us in Dallas. Our investigators 
flew there to question him, but he would only meet with them at the 
Dallas Police Station. His attorney was Bill Alexander, the Dallas 
first assistant district attorney. He was totally uncooperative. I 
am quite sure we subsequently subpoenaed him to appear before the 
Orleans Parish Grand Jury but the State of Texas refused to extra- 
dite. (The reasons for our wanting to question him are too obvious 
to need reciting. However, should the time come when your committee 
wishes to do so, I will get together additional background material 
on him — and other parts of the Banister/Cuban Revolutionary activity — 
when you are ready for it. ) 

SANDRA MOFFATT was important bec^ase Perry Russo had recalled her as 
being present on several occasions when Clay Shaw visited David 
Ferrie 1 s apartment while the young man identified as "Leon" Oswald 
was present. However, she succeeded in moving faster than our sub- 
poena and made it to the sanctuary of Iowa (no extradition there for 
Grand Jury subpoenas) before we could have her served. (Beckham also 
had gone to Iowa to avoid his subpoena, but we succeeded in getting 
him served when he made a return trip to Omaha). 

GORDON NOVEL had participated with David Ferrie, Sergio Arcadia and 
others in the removal of ammunition from the Schlumberger explosives 
bunker in Houma, 'Louisiana, for transfer to the Banister office and 
from there to Miami for use in anti-Castro activity. Novel, like 
Moffatt, moved faster than our subpoena, ending up in Ohio where he 
remained for some years. Despite several attempts, we were unable 
to get Ohio to extradite Novel for appearance before the Grand Jury. 

REG-IS KENNEDY had been one of the lead F.B.I. agents in the Bureau’s 
post-assassination investigation in New Orleans. We had also identi- 
fied him as a pre-assassination associate of individuals connected 
with Friends of Democratic Cuba and of Guy Banister's. Obviously, 
he appeared to be in a position to illuminate us about these opera- 
tions. He appeared before the Grand Jury, but refused to testify, 
taking the "Executive Privilege" on the ground that the Attorney 
General had ordered him to cb so . He repeated this performance, as 
I recall, at the C3.ay Shaw trial, (We also wanted very much to ques- 


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Mr. Jonathan Blackmer 
Page five (Addendum) . 


November 0, 1977 


tion F.B.I. Agent Warren DeBrueys, apparently the head of the 
Bureau's Cuban desk in New Orleans and a man very much immersed in 
pre-assassination anti-Castro activity in New Orleans. We were also 
interested in the fact that when Oswald left New Orleans for Dallas, 
deBrueys was transferred to Dallas. As a post-script to his career, 
deBrueys later became the S.A.C. of the Bureau’s office in San Juan, 
Puerto Rico. Since your committee's assassination investigation 
began, he has retired and returned to New Orleans where he is now 
the "assistant" to the Director of the Metropolitan CrimeCommission. 

In any case, after our experience with Agent Regis Kennedy, we felt 
it was fruitless to go through the same routine with deBrueys). 

ALLAN DULLES and RICHARD HELMS were subpoenaed before the Grand Jury 
because of the positions they had occupied in the C.I.A. during the 
late 1950's and early 1960's. We felt that they could enlighten us 
on a number of points. (We knew that they probably wouldn't, but 
we felt that they could , with the records available to them, so we 
subpoenaed them.) Among other things^we wanted to know what Clay 
Shaw's status was with regard to the Agency, what David Ferrie's 
background had been — and perhaps was — as an Agency contract employee, 
what Lee Oswald's relationship to the intelligence community was, 
what the connection of Cubans such as Sergio Arcacha was to the 
Agency and other obvious questions. 

The United States Attorney in Washington — obviously not overly 
driven by the ancient dictum: "Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens 

Fall" — refused to serve these subpoenas and simply sent them back 



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MEMORANDUM 






December 4, 1967 

TO: JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

FROM: TOM BETHELL 

RE: AL CLARK 

************** ******* * * ****** 






On Sunday, December 3, 1967, I spoke to 
AL CLARK at Dixieland Hall, and asked him about his state- 
ment to HAROLD WE IS BERG that he had seen DEAN ANDREWS 
talking to LEE HARVEY OSWALD. 

CLARK stated that when he saw OSWALD on 
television after the assassination his immediate reaction 
was that he had seen him before. After thinking about it 
he came to the conclusion that he had seen OSWALD with 
ANDREWS. ANDREWS, CLARK recollects, was in the habit of 
bringing his friends into the back door of Dixieland Hall, 
and he believes he saw ANDREWS and OSWALD sitting together 
in the patio right behind Dixieland Hall. 

CLARK said, he did not mention this before 
Jpecaus P ^ h Q 1i qht it was common know ledge . that ANDREWS _ _ 
.-knew O SW ALD, and he didn’t thi nk it was important. Andrew^ 
had always told him that he knew OSWALD, and tberefore he 
att ached no significance to it. 

CLARK did not see OSWALD on television in 
New Orleans when he passed out leaflets in front of the 
Trade Mart. 


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ATTORNEYS AT LAW 
VI O CARONDELET STREET 
NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70*30 


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November 8, 1977 


Mr. Jonathan Blackmer 

Select Committee on Assassinations 

Hous^ of Representatives, Annex 2, Room 33S 

Washington, D. C. 20515 


RE: 



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Individuals subpoenaed to the- ’ 

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Orleans Parish Grand Jury 


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Dear Jon; 




Following is a list of persons I recall as having testified before / 
the Grand Jury in connection with our inquiry into the assassination 
of President Kennedy. The year involved, according to my recollection 
would have been 1967 in some instances and 1968 in others. As I ad- 
vised you by phone. Grand Jury testimony here is automatically typed 
afterwards so that the complete transcript should ' readily be avail- 
able to you. 


Dean Andrews * ¥ 
Thomas Beckham 
Lawrence Howard 
F. Lee Crisman 
Marina Oswald 


Kerry Thorn ley 
Loren Hall 
Layton Martens* 
Carlos Quiroga 
Ruth Paine 


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There may have b£en others and I will have to talk to former members 
of my staff to clarify this, however these were the witnesses whom 
I clearly recall as having testified. The specific records of pre- 
cisely who testified and when (as well as the transcripts of their 
testimony) would be in the custody of the present District Attorney 
of Orleans Parish: Harry F. Connick, 2700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, 

La. 


Dean Andrews, who clearly lied during his Grand Jury testimony, was 
subsequently charged with perjury (essentially, as I recall the 
charge) with regard to his testimony that Clay Shaw was not the "clay 
Bertrand" who contacted him about representing Lee Harvey Oswald. He 
was subsequently found guilty at a jury trial, although I don't re- 
call ever seeing this minor footnote to history ever noted in the 
national press. 


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Dave d! hanarer 
Clint Hall 

Ronnie Caire (Cigali Bldg.) 

Jesse Core 

Ray Barg (Cigali Bldg.) (Caire and Berg are enemies.) 

Clay Shaw ‘ * ■ 

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*5 t ? > *' after the Absinthe House incident. 

Hugh frard used to hang out at John George's liquor store 
in Ma’tamoros . Ward took off from Matamoros with Chep on 
the fatal flight. Morrison had a large amount of money 
(suitcases) with him, according to Hoke May. 

Frosty Morrison (niece of Frosty Blackshear) r an off w ith 
R uss Conger. How in Californi a with him. j^hav^gxg— jUh^avs~7 ^ 
j^Tth Cubans rn green fatigues ? Q> ; O Wv vv^*- 7 , 


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y O J Helen Gladstone operates Jewish Civic Press. Knew Thornley 
and many others. She was often at the Ryder Club. 

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Rog£DcJC -ov j n _ i s', least on the fringe^ Quite likel y 

that all the stories (Ruby contacting him. . .Oswal d his 
‘Ybommate ) . 

His father owns much land around Slidell. Right now is 
playing in the band at the Gunga Den. ‘ * 

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William Crais was lawyer, but never seemed to work. 

Jerry Halford might know some of these' people — Bill Crais, 
for example. Will probably be helpful- 

Ivan Kotteman. Is artist at Jackson Square now. His brother 
was co-author with Shaw on ."Men Without Women". Went to 
Warren Easton . 

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Mexican Restaurant. Cubans hung out there. 522 Bourbon. 
(Jack Frazier would know how to contact him.) 


Martin McAuliffe had book published by Doubleday. Knows 
Bolton. Hung around the Bourbon House (Sally-Sayer s-Nelson 
would know) . Reid believes he was with Allen Johnson or 
Ronnie Caire. He called Barbara about something soon after 
she saw Oswald. 

Glenn Douthitt may know many of the persons and happenings. 

Noel Jeffries, graphic arts studio, same thing. 

Dave Chandler and Thornley had to know each other. Dave 

was close to John — r-Vl-larhi^an anA.Canl i nnrr LCnac cL was close 

to Thornley. .Tohn married Grace. 


Buckley, remittance man (claims to be brother of William 
Buckley) . T a rlrnnk and hnmnRP^mal * T.wpc: ^t- 1900 hln, 


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Will Brady, is believed by Barbar 
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On ifeu- -v, S^'^on- 25, 15*3,. at U30 ?.*., A. Schi a n%a and 
I arri^d at the house of DA? Hi 05 SSAPLETOSI, 235 DSXdSE ATE., 

MOBILE, AJjAMHA# DAPHNE’S mother case to the floor and 
reoog ni r >4 S CHI A 1 5311 A inmedi s .ijely . A no ini OKiiod us c 
BAFiCE Oas ill end that she could not see us. Sno alco said 
she (;in?«» STAPLETON) would not lot her (DAPHNE) talke to us. 

It was only after agreeing with her about the aouotihu. morals 

of so: vs of Daphne’s former friends that Hrs. Stapleton agreed 
to let me come in to talk with her daughter, this was alpo 

only after I had given her the impression that I was a former 

friend of her daughters. As it was, when Soiembra end I 

returned to the house after her stipulated delay of fifteen 

minutes (to give Daphne tins to make herself presentable) 

some of lies. Stapleton’s reservations had returned’ because she said 

that Daphne couldn’t remember me. Not surprising because 

Daphne and I had never met. 

As soon as I went in the house Daphne was most friendly and 
obviously prepared to be cooperative, The only problem was 
the mother, who kept interacting end tolling Daphne it wasn't 
smart to got involved. 


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I had taken the DVD AH COFFEEHOUSE guest book and a, stack of 

photographs of various crowd shots of Quarter activities in 

the hopes that Daphne would spot some familiar faces and that 

it might trigger associations, because she did say at the 

beginning rhe was paniliar with the Bourbon House and in cone 

respects the crowds did overlap. Unfortunately Daphne had 

been to the oculist the day before and because of the drops 

used was unable to focus either ’see the uictures or to read 

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and ;. . then I could ask her anything I wanted too, that she 
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vac veiling to coop orate in any way possible* She stated this 
fir 1 y over her mother’s continual audible objections and 
eaten- filings. 


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It wa i around 9; 00 All on a Berner nomine, quite warn and 'Daphne 
was sitting on the steps reading a book of short stories by 
Henry Jarr.es arid had reached the story "Aluer Of The Dead" when 
she vas joined try PATTY CLSASO'T, who, with her husband, had an 
apartment in the sene building. Daphne was very cor.oious of 
the time because she was waiting for the mail delivery and a 
check from her mother. She rxdd said the reason for Patty 
remaining there was also the nail delivery and. though it wasn’t 
specifically mentioned Daphne was "sure she was waiting for a 
check too, T Je both usually were in the sane position, our 
husbands were alike." 


A red sports car nulled to stop and a young man got ou t. Daphne 
said, "I don’t know what kind it was, but it wasn’t an JIG because 
I like HGs." I asked her* if she liked the looks of this car and 
she said yes. I asked her if the top was down and she said, "If 
it vas it must have been dark, (meaning the top)" Obviously the 
top was down because Daphne was sitting up on the steps and 
looking down she saw the woman who was driving quite clearly. 


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Her first thought was why would a mother be bringing her con to 
this place, because there was no hesitation their parts. She 
described the woman as being in her forties, wearing sunglasses, 
and her overall impression was disc approval at the woman’s 
appearance, both in dress and in the way she vroro her hair. 
Daphne said she immediately thought, "Mother would call her 
cheap." 7 asked her what made that thought pop into her mind 

and she said, "It was her hair. ..it was grey ... silver. .. and it 

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jtiid toe . ‘ .wi » . ts sail •- eai . ' ' '. r yao-* 

csss i and; yon could tali this worm had just had a porr.sr.cnt# • • 
kind c ■ 'Incky up hero (having her hand around the top or crown 
of h-. •: h i-.-id)* 1 * Haro mother and daughter paused to argue about 
proco" . . methods, The dry ho fore Daphne had also gone to a 
beauty . op were they had “ over-pro co s sod"- her hair which explained 
her re f: cense about oping seen 'ey anyone. 

Oswald cl oned the ora* door end the woma n dro ve off. Ka seemed to 
know er a c II y wh.sr-s he w -■ and car, a straight to the steps. She 
was c-.v v- ions of thinking he certainly didn’t belc-nr in a carglike 
that because the clothes he was wearing were so old and worn (short 
sleeved patterned sport shirt and black slacks) but she emnhaslaad 
how f resh, clt-.^nd and •pressed they weno - “Such old clothes to be 



apartment. Ho returned in a few moments, took the kitten from her 
and sat beside her on the steps stroking it. 


Oswald cradled the cat saying, “I like pets... I prefer dogs... tut 
I sm-e like cats too." I asked her if she had noticed his hair 
and she said yes, that it was vary neat fend well cut. They talked 
awhile | unfortunately the Mother interspersed with "If you know 
something that’s when you should keep your mouth shut" and 

Daphne overrode her continuing with, !, ~e said he was cold. . ."It* s 
so cold," he sf,id. so a. Id, '....I thought he must be sick 
or something because it was such a warm day*. .and he looked so sad 
and lonely and unhappy that I felt so sorry for him, he was. such 
a nice boy. ..I’m always picking up stray cats and dogs and I wanted 
to ask him what I could do to he In him." 


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At thh i tho car 4 "Iv:M bv tho woman returned and, Oswald wrote 
on p, • ; of nvj-?:, 1 ; U r ' : J OS;fAT»D T » h-".T-d rd it to her n^ d sai.rl_"Tol.7 
Jack I i..- s hare ," Daphne folded the piece of paper and put it in 
the hX' ■■'. as a bookmark, I asked her if she had given it to Jack 
and she s\id "ho, I forgot to give it to him and I didn’t -give 
him the message either.*. I forgot about it completely it wasn’t 
until after everything happened that I saw the paper again that I 
even remembered it all because I’d been sick*..*" Hera things 
became confusing because of the idiotic mother trying to dro-.ei 
Daphne out by tolling me the details of all Daphne's miscarriages, 
Hitt through it all Daphne was saying with determination, "Mother 
I*n trying to answer her questions. » .They aren’t interested in that, 
they know what they want end if I can halo I’m going too..,." This 
is whom DHL fUTfHit entered into discourse, 

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Sh e sai d she did n’t coo the pa per again unt.il! she reopened the boo k 

sometime later. Dill Seller came to :■• her in a panic. . ."Don’ t 

e ver toll them (?) I knew Oswald. " Daphne then said, "I know he 
s aw him several tines. . In terup ti on . . . 1 1 A1 x’i ght 1 I’d s we ar . . . I ’ m 
positive he saw him at least once... He (Bill Sulser) said he had . 
been with him several times and that he had introduced liin (Oswald) 
to Ja ck and whatever I did not to mention it to anyone . . . and thats 
why I thought it was so strange when Dave Snyder and that other 
man came to see me because I knew the only way they could have 
known where I lived was if Bill gave then ny address and I didn't 
know why he would do that when he had been so scared and I thought 
they wore from the DA’s and they were so awful to me...” 


At this point Scianbra knocked on the door and as the mother left 
the room I gave Daphne a card with my number .on it and said "Call 
any time of day or night." She nodded and tucked it out of sight 
as her mother returned to room. Both women agreed to ny talking 
to Daphne again with Daphne apologising and saying she would be 
in bettor shano the rent time I came, The mother made it quite 


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cle ■- : 'jo waru’ a i-.-an o ■ earth she trusted fend sho would re 

satisfl :«1 for ail man to, stay away and not bother Daphne, • however 
I was welcome to cone tr.sk any time. 


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As I started out the door, Daphne continued talking about Bill 
saying that Bill had gone to Jack and told him not to talk about 
meeting-, y ■ t t o! d J u k t h at Jack had intr oduced Oa wald to hin JL ( 3111 ) 
Daphne said Jack i;as so upset at that, that sho thought lie had 
gone to the FBI to tell then he had never met Oswald but that 
it soenecl the man who seemed to know about Oswald would be Sul oar. 


[Upon, our return to Hevr Orleans I talked to Jack Frasier that 
sane evening. I asked him if he had approached the FBI and he 
said be had not, that they had come to him and asked him about 
I a trip to heri-co that he had made v.uth Howard Cohan in January 
of 1$63. He insists that as far as ho knows he never did meet 
Oswald, but does not rule out possibility. He seemed to feel 
okkruc that Daphne was completely credible and I didn’t detail 
anything to him. He feels *a sense of protectiveness for Suiter 
.or at least appears to. 

It seems Daphne would be worth talking to some more if only 
to find out more about the note and wether she still lias it* 
Even though Daplme was in a very nervous state to the extent 
of continually shaking hands, it night be attributable to her 
mother's presence and it seems she might be different in other 
surroundings . 


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Met hiai’in Oct. X9'o3. Beverly’s father died in August just * 

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■ after Tier sixteenth birthday. She is only twenty now and her ' .* 

first flush of freedom and defiance is very vivid in her memory 
because of this. She had not yet started to drink or fool " 
around with- drugs so there is no .question of disorientation 
attributable to that. 

.Knew and had seen at D. FERRIS'S apartment TOMMY CCIPTOir, 


LAYTEN I ATSir-S, BSAUBOUF, $ RUTH KYLBR. Said that Ruth would 


probably have a lot mote information because she was always 


around thex*e. Tried to, avoid any emphasis on RUTH'S name 



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because her (BEVERLY) involvement with the group was because 
she and HUTH were best friends and RUTH'S father had brought 
a morals charge against either Compton or MELVIN COFFEE because 
of RUTH. BEVERLY met F3HEI3 in WRAY GILL'S office when she 
went with RUTH to talk- about the investigation of Ruth's case 
Dave Ferrie was making. 

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At this point Beverly interjected that 2XESIS CHARLIS^^Q* DRT,L t 
who was arressted at the same timjS (actually a day or two ls.ter) 
for being involved as Beverly's supplier of LSD, was one of 

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Dave Ferrie* s students in his flight instruction school. 

At Dave Ferric's apartment Beverly met a man named 


•J lHj/ no la.st name that she could remember. Lived with Ferrie 
and Beaubouf. FeS ls ho was invol ve d in Cuban activities b & c ai 
of conversations. Worked for Ferric at service station on 


Louisiana A ve nue and later on Veteran's highway, Jim was bl o nd , 
hort, 'real light skin, about 2 6 or even younger. 


tatoo on chest, 


trong hillbilly accent ar.d had either front toot h, or teeth, 
missing and used to s -?y , "I got- this tooth knocked out in boot 

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car.p" . Went up tc Ferrie 1 s apartment one afternoon to see Jim 


alone. But did not say why. 


y s . she saw a rifle laying aoios3 

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e.nd that she never saw Ji:n after that time but that he did 


call her several times for her to call him but that she did 
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( In IFovember, Beverly and Layton were on Louisiana Ave on thei? 

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way to Da vo Ferric' s apartment because she wanted to talk to. 

Dave. Around two or three in the morning, At first she said, 

"This was around the time of the assassination." And then 
she stopped, looked startled and said, "Say. ...it might even 
have been tha t trip,... I You know, the ciusm more I remember j 
the more I think I might know too much." 

Th e^ran into a beige station w agon or truck (Which could me am 
a station wagon with panels instea d of back windows.) and Dave 
Ferrie, Alvin Beaubouf ,/^iorris Brownie^ an tTjim > j^)were in it. 
Somebody had a rifle. She rcram e;f~rn the car but could see 


the rifle and apparently more guns in back. Lay ten got out 
talk to them. She feels Horris was* driving the car. She 


wanted to get out and talk to Dave bat(L?yteu\jtold her to stay 
in the car and not bother them, they were going on a trip. 


Beverly asked where an d (L ay t e rPysai i , "They 1 re going 'snips 
hunting." She aske d, (3. H.) "What do you call those green 
clothes, camouflage suits? They were all wear inn- those." 

This v.’as“T5e _ fast” time she saw Dave Ferrie. The incident 
of going’ to his apartment to see Jim was after this and while 
she was there Dave pulled up in front of the house and called 
up to £ira but she did not sec -him.. 

The following notes are all said by Beverly in a rather 
disorderly way because she was in a hurry to get to church. 

Somebody should try to find out why I3K3 CALLYA (phone, sp, ) 
c o mi t ed, suicide. Was son of a gangster. ~ Couple oF years ago in 
Hammond. '‘ = ™ - ' , 

fielvin Coffee worked at Kichould and Torr.y Compton should 
loiow whore he is, they were close friends. Last time I saw him 
was at Bisro's Best, was about. two years ago with new bride, Julie. 
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I asked Uevsx'Xy wether she had any snapshots of any of these 
people, singly or in a group. She sai*d no, but Lay ten's mother 


might have some pictures. . She, was in Jackson at that time." She 
saicl. Lay ten* s mother was in and out of hospitals all the time. 


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(it seems a possibility to me that Ruth might have some 
pictures, Though Ruth and Ilorris did, not date at that 
time, they are very close now.) /jf>/ 

'ten' s mother know s 


Beverly very positively said, "Lay 




something, and she was in Kandevillc at time of assassination and 


tho s e records were lost. Lay ten had his mother committed because 
she complained the FBI was" Questioning h er. ” f 


"3.“R.‘ ‘ When was this? 
Beverly : 


Before the assassination. 




And I guess after too. 


You know how a lot of people think that Jesus 
had red hair and you see pictures of bin with his 
hair red, well I always thought she was talking 
about Kennedy because he had red hair and she said 
the FBI qu estioned her aboitt the killing of Jesus. 
She was in love wit hrTT?. y V ~F or kfPT an cl acted 1 eke 



Did you talk with her a lot? ' 

' Oh yes, we talked a lot and Layten’s mother always 

said, ’The reason they keep having me co.uaited to t ” ose 
k mental hospitals is because they want to use my 
I house as a meeting place for all their filthy 
^ orgies. ’ (^(5522 C amp St, 7 C 


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At the time Roger was living on St. Charles with a we 

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named Pj dices , a social worker who has since married 

and is now living in Ilonroe, La. 

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Por a while Roger was living at the Modern Language Inst. 

Frank Schilling, who 'was a. student at hf'.UAO and until four m on— 

^ thcc c go its working at hcrld. oRy's lock ~torc t was part of Rog er* s 
'i jft/’ \/ ;V js crowd at that time. He claimed to .a n»ar»har o? the Nasi Youth Party, 

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The first day Beverly talked quite freely. By Wednesday, 
March 6th, when she stopped by again, she was beginning to feel 
some regrets. I suggessted she talk to Rev erend Green and I was 
sure that she could feel he' would tell her the only right thing 
was to discuss it. She said she already had and that she had. 
done right in discussing. She thinks that Barnes Alcock knows 



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press ure on her. This girl is seemingly trying to tell the truth, 
a guilt expiation th ing no w that she has become a religions 
fanatic. But she is jittery and even with what she did say. 


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MEMORANDUM 
December 12, 1967 

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TO: 

JIM GARRISON, 

District Attorney 

FROM: 

GARY SANDERS, 

Investigator 


RE: 

LEE HARVEY OSWALD 



Mr. EDWARD A. BRAND, 1924 Riverway Lane, Dallas, Texas (a/c 214, 
227-1495) was working for the Tower Insurance Company, 1045 N. 
Zangs, Dallas, Texas (a/c 214, WH 8-7596) at the time of the 
assassination. Mr. BRAND told a confidential source in Dallas 
that a man he later said was LEE H ARVEY OSW ALD h ad asked him about 
buying automobile insurance <gi6out~a week or so be foxa) the 
assassination of President Kennedy. 

This is an interesting piece of information since it would seem 
to verify the testimony of ALBERT GUY BOGARD, (10H352) a salesman 
for Downtown Lin coin -Mercury in Dallas, that a man who said he was 
n.qwftLQ Jja d ap proached him about purchasing an automobile on 
djtovember 9, 19k 3 3 

It is also interesting to note that 1045. N, Zangs is only a few 
doors from 1026 N. Beckley . 

As far as I know, no one from this office has talked to Mr. BRAND 
and he should be contacted for any further information that he 
may have such as a signature of the man he talked to or an order 
form which might have been filled out in anticipation of the 
insurance sale . 


GARY SANDERS 


cc: Bill Boxley 


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1. Kerry Thorn ley . ■ /*/ A , * 

2. Juanita Abbot (friend of Dalzell's) i ,- N , 

3. Bill Dalzell ■ / ■ . * . ij fi 

4. Dave Chandler . - j 

5. Clint Hall / I 

6. Ronnie Caire (Cigal i Bldg.) 

7 - Jesse Core 

8. Ray Berg (Cigali Bldg.) (Caire and Berg are enemies.) 

9. Clay Shaw 

10. Tony Devine » '■ . 

11. Frank Phares (writer) * Nd£ ’ f? PC?#// 


12. John Dodt (700 block St. Louis) 


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iolton)was with Reuters (India) and United Press . *T* "ifiO *** f 


During the month of the assess ination Barba r^ had idiar^cs- 


t giving Dinner. . uii ( K KT ):;*■****“ 

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Army. probably back on West Coast. 


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, Lou Trent knev; Banister real well. Leaped to his defense 
* after the Absinthe House incident. 

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| Hugh frard used to hang out at John George’s liquor store 
'3 in Ma'tamoros. Ward took off from Matamoros with Chep on 
the fatal flight- Morrison had a large amount of money 
(suitcases) with him, according to Hoke May. 

Frosty Morrison (niece of Frosty Blackshear) ran off with 
Russ Conger. Kow in California with him. They were always 


with Cuba 


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Helen Gladstone operates Jewish Civic Press. .Knev: Thornley 
and many others. She was often a t the Ryder Club. 

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Rogar-Lovin-Ls aj— they least on the fr.ing.el Quite likel y 
that all the stories (Rubv contacting hi m . . -Oswal d his 

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His father owns much land around Slidell. Right now is 

playing in the band at the Gunga Den. «*■ 

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William Crais was lawyer, but never seemed to work . 

Jerry Halford might know some of these' people -- 3ill Crais, 
for example. Will probably be helpful*. 

Ivan Kotteman- Is artist at Jackson Square now. His brother 
was co-author with Shaw on ."Men Without Women". Went to 
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Kottenum moved from his "Salle d' Armas" ar.d opened up a 
Mexican Restaurant. Cubans hung out there. 522 Bourbon. 
(Jack Frazier would know how to contact him.) 


Buckley, remittance man (claims to be brother of William 


Buckley) 

Dauph i. ne 

Will Bradv is believed by Barbara 
to Clay 



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es at 120,0 block 

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Reid to have lived close 

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Martin McAuliffe had book published by Doubleday. Knows 
Bolton. Hung around the Bourbon House (Sally-Sayers-Nelson 
would know) . Reid believes he was with Allen Johnson or 
Ronnie Caire. He called Barbara about something soon after 
she saw Oswald. 


Glenn Douthitt may know many of the persons and happenings. 

Noel Jeffries, graphic arts studio, same thing. 

pave Chandl er and Thornley had to know each other. Dave 
was cl os e to Joim a ^hr-r>n am) n.-,pV; pg.p_r (Hr a cel, was close 
to Thornlev. .inhn_ m a r r i ed Grace. 




TO: 

FROM: 

RE: 


JIM GARRISON, District Attorney 

ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA , Assistant District Attorney 
JIM SERIO 


JIM SERIO informed me that SANDY KRASNOFF's wife, DOTTY, used to 
tie employed by an automobile tire company. She said 
came into her company driving a pickup truck with T^ TDF.r.T . 1 s name 
written .on — the side of the truck. ^ waT.n. hon^ii fpnr tp rfj c; 
charged theia. Later on it was her job to try and collect the 
money for the tires. She said she called OSWALD on the phone 
two or three times and the last time she called him OSWALD told 
her that he was not responsible for the tires and that she could 
talk to his attorney who was with him at the time. A person got 
on the phone and talked to her and identified himself as DAVID 
FERRIE and said that he was OSWALD'S attorney. FERRIE informed 
her that he knew the law and that OSWALD was not responsible for 
the tires and would not pay for them. They argued about this 
point and she later commented to FERRIE that he had the right 
name because he sounded like a fairy on the phone. She said ther^ 
are records that should verify this and she said that on the day 
that DAVID FERRIE died a writer from Time magazine came to her 
house to inquire about this story. (LOU IVON has already checked 
into this.) 


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Hertir K fbttfcft Gurfclor HI 
K Kiric Meyer 
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H te 6 Zetcanm (doco&sod) 

Andre Iapoyr* ( •* ) 

Goncalo Abauma Jr 
Richard Daunfoach 
Ifct Urowne 
Dp Isaac Cas&rlcv'o 
Dr Albert Osrrd,^lia 
Dr Jog Craven 
Richard 0 3ronn Jr 
B Frank EoKLemn 
Or Dlnorah Bstova 
Dr J D Grey 
Kre Milk G Gray 
ft* Joe Hopkins 
Or i An Locke 
Mrs IlHaln ! artincr. 
ft* Robert Vafld© 

C t ftlme 
Rloliard Hr wan 
rlarry L Poaeo 
Robert Talnolo 
Janes T Richards 
Ensile Belly 
Dr Jos V Saha Sehlosoor 
Edgar Stem# Jr 
Berclvttl Stem 
Dr Geo St John 

Cioll Shllstons 

Dan S*il2ivan 
Garner Fullic 
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Seynour ttelso 

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TO: JIK GARR IS HP 

FROM: ROBERT HEAD 

RE: THE HOUSE OF BULTMAN 

T think it might be worth your time to check out the House of Bultman & Muriel Bultman* 
She has been described to me as what they call a "frultfly." 

Was once engaged to Shaw. They apparently needed opera partners. 

Gave Wegmann, Shaw's lawyer, $1000, after inditemsnt. 

House of Bultman' s clients are mostly latin Americans, 

Hhe also has something to do with a dance studio which arranges dances for special 


The House of Bultman believes that their place of business is under surveillance, 
by whom they don't know. 


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after 'he •• •■??. ..ctosnth birthday. She is only twenty now and her 
first flu h of freedom and defiance is very vivid in her memory 
because of this. She had not yet started to drink or fool ' 
around with drugs so there is no .question of disorientation 
attributable to that* 

Knew and had seen at D. FDR AIR'S apartment TO AR Y CCIAPTGH, 


LAYTBH I A?oi>3, ByjAUL'OU?, $ RUTH IC/LB-1. Said that Hath would 
probably have a lot mots information because she was alway s 
around there. Fried to avoid any emphasis on RUTH 1 S name 



because her (B3VL??XY) involvement with the group was because 
she and RUTH were best friends and RUTH 2 S father had brought 
a morals charge against cither Compton or URL VI IT C0PF2K becau 
of RUTH. BRVEHLY met PPRRIR in HRAY GILL'S office when she 
went with RUTH to talk- about the investigation of Ruth's case 
Dave Perrie was making. 

Beverly started g oing vritft Lay ten Ilartcnh; and was convinced she 
was in love i/ith him. 



At this point Beverly interjected that 1R1XJ.XB C HAaLIS* 0 ' DRT.L, 
who was arres steel at the same tinji ( actually a* day or two later) 
for being involved as Beverly's supplier of LCD, was one of 
Dave Perrie' s students in his flight instruction school. ' 

At Dave Perries :TA:cifAT:kT apartment Beverly mot a man named 


JIRj/no last name that she could remember. Lived with Perrie 
and Beaubouf. Pells jie_wa s involved in _Cubart activities because 
of conversations, 'forked for Perrie at service station on 


Louisiana Avenue arid later on Veteran's highway. Jim was blond. 


short, ’real l ight skin, aboi;t 26 or even younger, tatoo o n chest, 
strong hillbilly accent a nd had either front to oth, or teeth, 

nocked out in boot 


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f»*id th»t be never saw Jim after that tine but that he did 

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call h r '■■ ■ veral tines for her to call him but that she did 
not rets f his calls. 

( In Hove:, r, Beverly and Layton 'were on Louisiana Ave on thei\ 
way to • J) : • e Ferrie's apartment because she wanted to talk to 
Dave. Around two or three in the morning. At first she said, 

"This was around the time of the assassination." And then 
she stopped, looked startled and said, "Bay. ...it might even 
have been t hat trip...,! You know, the cruras more I remember ^ 
the more I think I might know too much." 

Th e^i-an into a beige station wago n or truck ( Which could meam 
a station wagon with panels instead of back wind ows. ) and Dave 



Ji’e rri e , A Ivin Beaubouf , s Brownie^ an f Jin )/)’.;orc in i t . 

Somebody had a rifle. She"" rc-maxnei^Tn the car but could see 
the rifle and apparently more guns in back. Lay ten got out 

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'to talk to them. She fools Morris was’ driving the car. She 


vranted to got out and talk to Dave b ut^I . ay t shYjt o 1 d her to stay 

in the ca r and not both er them, they were going on a trip. 

Beverly asked where and (ijayten^ysai d , "They’re going snipe 

hunting." She aske d, (B.k. ) "What do yon call those graan 

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clothes, camouflage suits? They were all wearing those." 


This v;as‘ tiie" last tine she saw Dave Ferric. The incident 
of going to his apart: ent to see Jim was after this and while 
she was there Dave pulled up in front of the house and called 
up to <fim but she did not sec - aim. 

The following notes are all said by Beverly in a rather 
disorderly way because she was in a hurry to get to church. 


Somebody should try to find out why MI '3 C ALLY A (phone, sn.) 
corrdted suicide, '..'as son of a gangster. Couple of years ago in 
Hanrniona* 

Melvin Coffee worked at Michould and To wry Compton should 
know where he is, they were close friends. L?ct time I saw him 
was at di.-' o 1 .: gout, was about. two years ago ‘with r.ew bride, 

Me* r ight have b; on transferred to Cano Memedv. 


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I a.nl Beverly wether she had any snapshots of any of these 
people, vly or in a group. She said no, but Lay ten’s mother 
night have * pictures. . She. ires in Jackson at that tine. "She 
said. Lay ica’s mother was in end out of hospitals all the tine. 

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hair red, well I always thought she was talking 

about Kennedy because he had red hair and she said 

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the KBI questioned he r about the kill in ~ of Jesus. 
* S he ’.fas in love :/i acted lake 
J.nv ton war; their son. 

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